"With the release of the first wave, The British Household Panel Survey is now available from the Archive. The article below is intended to provide an overview of the subject coverage of the British Household Panel Survey, give some idea of the analysis potential of the data, and outline the further dissemination plans for the data."
"This article describes the programme of data purchase, dissemination, training and development support which the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in collaboration with the Information Systems Committee of the Universities Funding Council (UFC-ISC) has put in place to...[inform users about] new products derived from the Census [of the United Kingdom]. As a preliminary some background to the census itself and to the Census Initiative are provided." Topics covered include census outputs, new features of the census, linked datasets, linked software, and Census Initiative datasets, training and development programs, and organization.
"This article describes the programme of data purchase, dissemination, training and development support which the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in collaboration with the Information Systems Committee of the Universities Funding Council (UFC-ISC) has put in place to...[inform users about] new products derived from the Census [of the United Kingdom]. As a preliminary some background to the census itself and to the Census Initiative are provided." Topics covered include census outputs, new features of the census, linked datasets, linked software, and Census Initiative datasets, training and development programs, and organization.
The authors describe the OPCS Longitudinal Study, a project that has linked data from the National Health Service Central Register with census data in England and Wales. The project, which began in 1971, contains data on some 500,000 individuals. The authors describe arrangements for accessing the data and give some illustrative examples of how these data have been used.
The author describes the purchase of two samples of anonymized records from the 1991 United Kingdom census and the creation of a center at the University of Manchester to act both as distributor of these data to the academic community and as a focus for research on substantive and methodological topics connected with census microdata. She "describes the legal problems and public sensitivities involved, makes comparisons with other countries' handling of census data, [and] describes the information to be released and the broad types of usage envisaged."
