UKDA (http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/)
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You can find datasets using Search catalogue, Major studies or Geographic
focus.
Only need to login to download
Athens usually works – link on top right on every page
– If prompted to login, use your Warwick login
Use the Download/order links to add the datasets to your shopping basket
Register a new use of data.
– Give a brief description of how you intend to use the data
Download, request for download, or request on CD.
Question Bank hosted at Surrey (http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/docs/topics.htm)
Health
• Department of Health
– Health Survey for England – available from DA - and much more
• Centre for Health Economics at York
• ONS web site lists many health-related surveys – NCDS has some health information
– 1996 FRS there was a supplement for disabled people
– Many GHS datasets have details about use of health services, fertility,
contraception, dental treatment ….
– LFS and FRS has disability and (recently) type of condition
– FRS has private medical cover
– ELSA now available (follows 50+ until they die)
• US Center for Health Statistics and the HRS (register)
– CDC’s NCHS (for Health, US and their Data-Warehouse) and NIH
– On-line PowerPoint guide to US med stats (137 slides)
• HCMA at ICSPR (register)
Education
• DfES has a good statistics site with links
– See Trends document
• Main surveys
– Cohort studies (BCS70 and NCDS); GHS, FRS, LFS etc usually have
qualifications or FT education leaving age
• US – National Center for Education Statistics
– CPS, NLSY and lots, lots more
• IAED at ICSPR (register)
• OECD Education at a Glance
• UNESCO data by year and country at UIS
• IALS, TIMMS, PISA
– cognitive skills as well as education, wages etc.
Labour
• UK – DWP lead department (but also DTI)
– See Analytical Services
• Labour questions in many surveys available at the UKDA
– LFS for wages, hours, training, education, etc.
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– Less detail in FRS, GHS, BHPS etc. Employers - NES and WIRS
CEPS
– Luxembourg Income Study (register by fax, signed by me)
• On-line access/analysis for surveys from 30+ countries for 30+
years
ILO Labour STA and access to LFS’s etc around the world
IZA metadata
US – Bureau of Labour Statistics
– Download Data Ferret for selecting small datasets from surveys
– Lots of survey datasets available by their FTP service
– CPS (but better to get the NBER version), NLS ‘s and much more
Development
• DfID – lots of background, not much data
• OECD International Development data
– Debt and aid statistics
• UN Common database
– 300 statistical series for over 280 countries from 1970 onwards.
• World Bank gateway to development statistics
• LSMS data
– More than 40 countries, many surveys available free on web
• The World Bank’s World Development Indicators contain statistical data for
over 570 development indicators.
– social, economic, financial, resources and environmental indicators
– 1960 - 2003 for over 200 countries
• WDI is now available at ESDS
– See also Jeremy’s WDI manual
Money, Banking and Financial
• Bank of England
– UK financial time series
• HM Treasury for public finances
• ECB Statistical DataBank Browser Interface (EBI)
• FAME and AMADEUS
– For hundreds of thousands of firms
– detailed information of balance sheet items
– database has to be accessed through campus PCs
• DataStream is also available on limited campus PCs.
• Financial time-series data is available
– Fin Web ’s list of financial databases, Financial Data Finder
• US Federal Reserve
– FRED – 100+ time series courtesy of the St Louis Fed
Economic History
• DA’s search engine can help – but data in this area tends to be fragmented.
• Many (mostly US) datasets in EH .net and NBER
• Archive of (mainly UK) historical data can be found at the History Data
Service at Essex
– including their on-line GB Historical Database.
• Macro History at NBER
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Obsfeld-Jones data
• Mostly US and mostly pre-WW2
• See NBER Working Paper #5186
– Heston/Summers (Penn) World Table
• 29+ macro series for 168 countries for 50 years.
Identify researchers who are prominent in the general area of your topic and
trawl their websites for links and data.
US data
• ICSPR Data Archive
– Available on-line – often without registration or charge.
– Generally fully documented on-line too.
– On-line tutorial on using ICSPR
– On-line analysis using DAS
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• Survey of Income and Programme Participation (SIPP)
• National Study of America’s Families (NSAF)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youths (NLSY)
• General Social Survey (GSS) and many others
• Major datasets available to everyone
– Specialised data only for US institutions
European
• CRONOS (via ESDS)
– macroeconomic and social time series data from 1960+
– 25 European Union (EU) Member states
– and many central European countries, Japan, and US
– organised into nine statistical themes:
• General Statistics, Economy and Finance, Population and
Social Conditions, Industry, Trade and Services, Agriculture
and Fisheries, External Trade, Transport, Environment and
Energy, Science and Technology
• Netherlands
– VSB panel collected via respondents’ PC’s
• Large financial information household panel since 1993.
– Available at Cent ER in Tilburg and can be freely downloaded
following email and registration.
Worldwide
• ESDS guide to international data sources
• UN, OECD, IMF, EuroStat and many other agencies
• NBER for links to data around the world
• Penn World Table for cross country national accounts
• CIA World Factbook
– Access via GIS system at
www.esds.ac.uk/International/access/commonGIS.asp
• LIS cross sections surveys for lots of countries
• ISSP social attitudes data
– available from GESIS on CD
• ECHP panel datasets for several EU countries
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EPAG have standardised the ECHPs
Time-Series
• General UK TS data from ESDS and ONS
– See Contents of Time Series Data
• Time Series Data Service
– Download NAVIDATA
• Or download text files
• Also OECD data from ESDS
– Get OECD MEI information first
– access via ESDS’s “Beyond 20/20” interface
• Monetary data from Bank of England
– Statistical Interactive Database and links
Survey data
• Many surveys at ESDS (the Data Archive)
• See QB at Surrey (http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/)
• WARNING Most survey datasets are large.
– Make sure you have space to store it.
– Make sure you have the memory to load it
– Many campus PCs have CD writers and USB
– Most are 256mb or higher
• It MAY be better to download a subset
• Think VERY CAREFULLY before you act
GHS
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Annual (since the early 60’s except 96, 99) .
– Details of content at ONS and QB at Surrey
– Around 10k households a year.
– Income, education … every year.
– Some info alternate years – smoking, health, etc.
– Each year also features a specific topic
• caring for the elderly, contraceptive practice, leisure activities,
social capital, etc.
Annual report (Living in Britain) from ONS
• See Appendix (G) for variables list by year
Annual (since the early 60’s)
– Details at ONS
– Around 7k households a year.
– Incomes, labour market status, and extremely detailed expenditure
patterns.
– Very stable over time (but take care with the definitions of a few vars
like marital status).
– Reinvented as EFS in 2001
FES annual reports (most recently called “Family Spending in Britain”).
Annual since 1993.
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Managed by DWP. Details at QB at Surrey
• Around 25k households a year.
• Data is UK since 02/3, GB before that.
• Covers very detailed incomes, labour market status.
• Wealth and savings information OK.
• Also covers childcare.
– Used by DWP/HMT for tax/welfare modelling
– See also IFS for history of tax/welfare system
Annual reports and HBAI at DWP website
Family and Children Survey
• Maintained by DWP available at DA
• Originally the WFTC evaluation dataset
– Before and after labour supply etc
– All lone parents plus poor couples with kids
• Continued since WFTC’s demise
– Now includes non-poor couples with kids too
• Panel of about 8000 families
– Now 6 waves available
– Lots of work, wage, family background info
– Plus deprivation, childcare, attitudes and awareness
Labour Force Survey
• Managed by ONS. Available at DA.
– See QB.
• Every 2 years from 1984, annual since 1991, and rotating 5-wave quarterly
panel design from 1993
– Earnings in wave 1 collected from 1993
– Earnings in waves 1 and 5 from 1997.
– Enormous size so good for looking at minority groups
BHPS - British Household Panel Study
• Panel” data of 5000 hh over time (14 yrs)
– control for endogeneity - “fixed effects”
– extensive information about economic vars
– lots of social background information.
– booster samples for recent Scots and Welsh.
• Details at QB
• Maintained by the ISER at Essex
– 100mb of docs !
• Data available at Data Archive
– NESSTAR “teaching” versions available
• Cornell bundle CNEFs with GSOEP, PSID, etc
LSMS - Living Standard Measurement
• World Bank poverty data
• Many countries
– Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ecuador, Peru …
– Many years, some panels
• Look very closely at documentation
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Fill in on-line Data Agreement Form
– Wait for email with links and password
– Click on links to download data
– Unzip
– Analyse