Dear Colleague
The ESRC Administrative Data Liaison Service supports administrative data research in the UK. I am pleased to announce the following updates and developments for the service:
1. Improvements to the ADLS website - www.adls.ac.uk.
i. Improved facility to search for administrative data.
ii. Improved guidance to help you apply for and use administrative data for research.
iii. New section covering administrative data related studies and surveys.
iv. New section on UK safe settings available for administrative data research.
v. Quick links section to aid navigation around the site.
2. ADLS Trusted Third Party Service.
The ADLS TTP is a facility to enable the linkage or enhancement of administrative data for research purposes where there are privacy or security concerns. We are currently seeking a research project to help demonstrate the benefits of this service. More details about this are available on the ADLS website at www.adls.ac.uk.
3. P-ADLS (Portal of the Administrative Data Liaison Service).
Administrative data is typically made available to researchers for time limited applications, so there is not the same possibility for archiving datasets. As a result, replication and further research of a dataset often requires repeating the time consuming process of data cleaning, development and transformation of the data. P-ADLS is a new online development to help solve this problem and improve the consistency, quality and quantity of administrative data research, by providing researchers and data holding organisations with a facility to archive research useful indicators, measures, syntax and files.
P-ADLS is currently in beta format and will be developed over the coming months. We would like to encourage you to submit resources to the P-ADLS bank and appreciate that this may take some time and effort. As a small gesture of our appreciation we will gift you a £20 Amazon token for each resource submitted to P-ADLS. More information is available from http://www.adls.ac.uk/padls/.
4. ADLS is on Twitter.
The ADLS is now on Twitter. You can start receiving our tweets about administrative data by following us here - http://twitter.com/#!/adlstweet.
If you would like any further information on the above or the ADLS then please do not hesitate to contact me by email at [log in to unmask] or telphone 01334 463901.
Yours faithfully
Darren Lightfoot
ADLS Manager
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