cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5276-1
title: Causes of Homelessness among Older People in Four Cities in England, and Boston, Massachusetts, 2001-2003

description: A comparative study of the causes of new episodes of homelessness among people aged 50 or more years was undertaken in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), Melbourne, Australia, and four English cities. The aims were to make a substantial contribution to the predominantly American debate on the causes of homelessness, and to make practice recommendations for the improvement of prevention. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The study had several objectives. It aimed to collect information about the antecedents, triggers and risk factors for becoming homeless in later life and about the national and local policy and service contexts. Furthermore, the researchers aimed to analyse and interpret the findings with reference to an integrated model of the causes of homelessness that represented structural and policy factors, including housing, health and social service organisation and delivery factors, and personal circumstances, events, problems and dysfunctions. The aim was to do this collaboratively, by drawing on the project partners' experience and knowledge. Finally, it was hoped to develop recommendations for housing, primary health care and social welfare organisations for the prevention of homelessness. This was to be done by identifying the common sequences and interactions of events that precede homelessness and their markers (or 'early warning' indicators) and by holding workshops in England with practitioners and their representative organisations on new ways of working.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; By the study of contrasting welfare and philanthropic regimes in a relatively homogeneous category of homeless incidence (i.e. recent cases among late middle-aged and older people), it was hoped that valuable insights into the relative contributions of the policy, service and personal factors would be obtained. The study focused on older people who had recently become homeless, purposely to gather detailed and reliable information about the prior and contextual circumstances. To have included people who had been homeless for several years would have reduced the quality of the data because of 'recall' problems.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Users should note that data from the Australian sample for the study are not included in this dataset.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5277-1
title: Opinion Poll for the London Mayoral, London Assembly and London Region European Parliamentary Elections, 2004

description: The aim of the research was to analyse voters' political preferences in London. The objectives of the research were:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to monitor the performance of two new electoral systems in London, the 'Supplementary Vote' and the 'Additional Member System'&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to analyse the extent to which voters 'split tickets' across political parties, both in the party and candidate vote for the assembly and in the first and second preference vote for the London Mayor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to explore the likely effects of voter behaviour on London's party system, and the wider implications for regional patterns of party support in England&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to examine differences in voters' attitudes towards parties and individual candidates, through analysis of opinion poll simulated voting results and attitudinal responses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to explore the preferences of non-voters in the London elections, through examination of the responses to ballot papers of non-voting respondents&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt; Two previous studies conducted by researchers from University College London on the 2000 London Mayoral elections are also held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA): the &lt;i&gt;London Mayoral Election Study, 2000&lt;/i&gt; (held under SN 4443), and the &lt;i&gt;London Mayor and Assembly Re-run, 2000&lt;/i&gt; (SN 4419).
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5281-1
title: Improving the Effectiveness of Pupil Group Work in Primary and Secondary Schools, 2002-2004

description: This study was designed to develop and evaluate effective group work at the primary and secondary school level. The project aimed to enhance the learning and achievement potential of pupils (Key Stages 1-3) working in classroom groups, by actively involving teachers in a programme designed to raise levels of group work during typical classroom learning activities. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The research first explored, with teachers, strategies for training pupils in group-work skills, and enhancing the use of group work in school classrooms. This resulted in the development of a group work programme, which aimed to enhance pupil attainment, classroom behaviour, attitudes and motivation. This was systematically evaluated in relation to control data. The project aimed to promote a more considered approach to the use of group work within classes. The results allow teachers to adopt new approaches based on sound evidence of their effectiveness and consolidate and improve current uses of group work. Findings contribute to a country-wide bid to raise standards and to reduce pupil disengagement. By working closely with practitioners to identify the conditions in which such effects can be maximised, the findings contribute to practice, theory, and future government policy.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5287-1
title: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People, 2003
title: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People, 1988-
title: Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren; Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People&lt;/i&gt; surveys began in 1982, under the name Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren. The series initially aimed to provide national estimates of the proportion of secondary schoolchildren aged 11-15 who smoked, and to describe their smoking behaviour. Similar surveys were carried out every two years until 1998 to monitor trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking. The survey then moved to an annual cycle, and questions on alcohol consumption and drug use were included. The name of the series changed to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers&lt;/span&gt; to reflect this widened focus. In 2000, the series title changed, to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People. &lt;/span&gt;NHS Digital (formerly the Information Centre for Health and Social Care) took over from the Department of Health as sponsors and publishers of the survey series from 2005. From 2014 onwards, the series changed to a biennial one, with no survey taking place in 2015, 2017 or 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In some years, the surveys have been carried out in Scotland and Wales as well as England, to provide separate national estimates for these countries. In 2002, following a review of Scotland's future information needs in relation to drug misuse among schoolchildren, a separate Scottish series, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey&lt;/span&gt; (SALSUS) was established by the Scottish Executive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5288-1
title: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People, 2004
title: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People, 1988-
title: Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren; Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People&lt;/i&gt; surveys began in 1982, under the name Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren. The series initially aimed to provide national estimates of the proportion of secondary schoolchildren aged 11-15 who smoked, and to describe their smoking behaviour. Similar surveys were carried out every two years until 1998 to monitor trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking. The survey then moved to an annual cycle, and questions on alcohol consumption and drug use were included. The name of the series changed to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers&lt;/span&gt; to reflect this widened focus. In 2000, the series title changed, to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People. &lt;/span&gt;NHS Digital (formerly the Information Centre for Health and Social Care) took over from the Department of Health as sponsors and publishers of the survey series from 2005. From 2014 onwards, the series changed to a biennial one, with no survey taking place in 2015, 2017 or 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In some years, the surveys have been carried out in Scotland and Wales as well as England, to provide separate national estimates for these countries. In 2002, following a review of Scotland's future information needs in relation to drug misuse among schoolchildren, a separate Scottish series, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey&lt;/span&gt; (SALSUS) was established by the Scottish Executive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5289-1
title: Segmentation of Consumers according to Type and Level of Engagement with Electronic Communications and Technologies, 2004

description: This project was designed to identify the principal general categories of consumers in Great Britain, on the basis of their different levels of engagement in and use of electronic information technologies. A key purpose of the classification was to allow surveys and other data files to be coded with a consumer segmentation relevant to this particular area of behaviour. Around 40,000 electors in Great Britain were thereby allocated to one of 23 distinct clusters in the data. The classification system was built using a series of publicly-available data items known about virtually all British electors. These have been combined in such a way as to optimise discrimination across a series of 80 different measures of consumer behaviour sources, taken from a lifestyle questionnaire database. Thus, the classification was compiled using results of some 80 response codes on over 500,000 lifestyle questionnaires collected over the three years prior to the project. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The classification system is in the form of a look-up table relating the cluster codes to a set of values on two multivariate classification systems, one at the person level (&lt;i&gt;Pixel&lt;/i&gt;), the other operating at the postcode level (&lt;i&gt;Mosaic&lt;/i&gt;). The information used to compile the classification included: length of residence and household composition obtained from the electoral registers of Great Britain local authorities; estimates of age based partly on attributes from said electoral registers; textual parsing of information from the Post Office &lt;i&gt;Postal Address File&lt;/i&gt; (PAF); and names and addresses of company directors supplied by Companies House and from a number of shareholder registers. Because of their proprietary nature, these source files are not included in the dataset.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; An arrangement has been negotiated between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Experian Ltd., whereby Experian will append their proprietary &lt;i&gt;Mosaic&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Pixel&lt;/i&gt; codes to survey respondent and/or customer/client records. The look-up table contained in this dataset thus allows the cluster code to be derived from these two data items. As a result of the annual updating of Experian's electoral register, there should be no obstacle to the coding of files containing new electors or those who have recently moved house.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5290-1
title: Adult Learning at Home: Lifelong Learning and the Information and Communications Technology Revolution, 2002
title: Adult Learning@Home: Lifelong Learning and the ICT Revolution

description: For this project, a set of research questions was developed to encompass the technologies that people use in their everyday lives, the activities they use them for, the associated skills and strategies used, and the meanings, motivations and contexts implicit in this engagement. With this in mind, the project focused on two principal areas of concern, namely in what ways access to information and communication technologies in the home, workplace and other community settings contribute to learning amongst adults, and to what extent the use of these technologies interrupt or reinforce existing patterns of participation in lifelong learning.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project used mixed methodology to collect data, in the form of a quantitative household survey and semi-structured face-to-face interviews with a sample of respondents who had completed the questionnaire. Users should note that only data from the household survey are currently included in the dataset.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5292-1
title: Russian Political Elite, 1999-2005

description: This project was a study of the Russian political elite in the era of Vladimir Putin, and sought to identify both the collective social characteristics of the elite and their formal patterns of association. The project was intended to advance scholarly understanding of such matters, and to help to inform the Western foreign policy community.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5293-1
title: Adults with Learning Difficulties in England, 2003-2004

description: This study, the first national survey of adults with learning difficulties conducted in England, was commissioned by the Department of Health. It took place between July 2003 and October 2004 and involved interviews with almost 3,000 people aged 16 years and over, with learning difficulties. The survey focused on what life is like for people with learning difficulties, including where they live and with whom, what they do during the day, and their needs, wants and aspirations. The survey also collected respondents' views on the support received.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey was preceded by a feasibility stage and full 'dress rehearsal' in 2002-2003 to determine the best approach to identifying individuals in the 2-3% of the population with a learning difficulty (previously known as a 'learning disability' or 'mental handicap'). A number of sources were used to ensure that all those in receipt of services were covered. The feasibility stage also helped ensure that the design of the survey was accessible and inclusive.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey was conducted by a consortium led by BMRB Social Research, which included Lancaster University and Central England People First (a self-advocacy group run by and for people with learning difficulties).
DOI: 10.15468/dl.mkqyn7
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 1472 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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}

 The dataset includes 1472 records from 37 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031170-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5295-1
title: Childhood Vaccination: Science and Public Engagement in International Perspective, 2002-2004

description: Given crises of public confidence in certain childhood vaccination regimes both in the United Kingdom and West Africa, this study used the lens of vaccination to explore emerging science-society relations in European and African settings which have conventionally been theorised very differently. Focusing on the case of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination in Brighton, England and on the intersection of routine vaccination with Medical Research Council (MRC) research on a major pneumococcal vaccine trial in the Upper River Division of Gambia, this project used ethnographic and survey methods to explore parents' own perspectives and decision-making processes around vaccination and research participation.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; It aimed to assess how different parents' concerns are shaped by conceptual frameworks and knowledges around disease and immunity, and broader experiences of public health care and science, and how different people consider 'trade-offs' between social and individual benefits and risks. It also explored how vaccine scientists and public health professionals conceive of public perspectives around vaccination, and how 'frontline' staff mediate professional and public views. The study drew on perspectives from medical anthropology and the sociology of science, and used a combination of research methods. Only data from the quantitative phase of the research is included in this dataset.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The quantitative research was conducted as follows. Mothers and fathers of a selected sample of children in the Brighton and Hove Primary Care Trust (PCT) area were asked to complete a questionnaire covering their views on the risks associated with the MMR vaccination, along with demographic information and child health, and this was linked to information from the PCT child health database. For the Gambian survey, a sample of mothers were given a questionnaire on the health of their children. For further details of sampling and methodology used at both locations, see documentation.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.15468/dl.sbcfbk
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 27295 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 "and" : [
 "BasisOfRecord is Human Observation",
 "Country is United States of America",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "TaxonKey is Castor canadensis",
 "Year 2020-2025"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 27295 records from 5 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031167-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.dgtjke
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 26336 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
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 "is Caracterización de fauna y flora en áreas biosensoras y de rehabilitación de la Mina Calenturitas, 2013-2025"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 26336 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031171-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5296-1
title: Continuous Household Survey, 2004-2005
title: Continuous Household Survey, 1983-
title: CHS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Continuous Household Survey&lt;/i&gt; (CHS) is one of the largest continuous surveys carried out in Northern Ireland. The survey is designed, conducted and analysed by the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). It is based on a sample of the general population resident in private households and has been running since 1983. The Survey is designed to provide a regular source of information on a wide range of social and economic issues relevant to Northern Ireland. The CHS is an important source of information in Northern Ireland and is used by many Government departments and Agencies. Regular clients include the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Culture Arts and Leisure, Regional Developments, Environment, Education, Employment and Learning and NISRA. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the series, including methodology, may be found on the NISRA Central Survey Unit (CSU) &lt;a href="https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/central-survey-unit/continuous-household-survey" title="CHS"&gt;Continuous Household Survey&lt;/a&gt; web pages.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5297-1
title: Views of Hosts: Reporting the Alien Commodity Trade, 1440-1445

description: The project aimed to make widely accessible the data gathered on the alien commodity trade as a result of an act of parliament in 1439, which required the formal pairing of alien merchants with English hosts who kept registers of alien business activities. Copies of these registers (or views) were ordered to be returned to the exchequer. The original documents, in Anglo-Norman French and Latin written up in 15th century hands, are available to the public at The National Archives, but the linguistic and palaeographical skills necessary to read them have proven a considerable obstacle to their use, except by a handful of professional scholars who have used the source to provide occasional illustrations of particular points. The project was designed to make the source readily and easily available to a broader readership in the form of a full transcript, as well as an English translation, and a database. The project further examined the antecedents and context of the 1439 legislation, and sought to identify the social, political and economic forces driving this early effort to isolate and control alien communities. It explored the data in terms of the contemporary good and bad alien stereotypes. It also assessed the mechanics of the administrative system employed for data collection, its adequacy to the task, and the methods used by aliens to evade it.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5298-1
title: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2004
title: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 1999-
title: SSA

description: The &lt;i&gt;Scottish Social Attitudes&lt;/i&gt; (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified, clustered sample), it aims to facilitate the study of public opinion and inform the development of public policy in Scotland, similar to the &lt;i&gt;British Social Attitudes&lt;/i&gt; (BSA) series (held at the Archive under GN 33168). The SSA survey has been conducted annually each year since 1999, with the exception of 2008. The survey has a modular structure. In any one year it typically contains three to five modules, each containing 40 questions. Funding for its first two years came from the Economic and Social Research Council, while from 2001 onwards different bodies have funded individual modules each year. These bodies have included the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government and various charitable and grant awarding bodies, such as the Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Further information on the SSA and links to publications may be found on the ScotCen Social Research &lt;a href="https://natcen.ac.uk/search?series%5B43%5D=43" title="Scottish Social Attitudes" target="_blank"&gt;Scottish Social Attitudes&lt;/a&gt; webpages.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 The 2004 survey was the sixth wave in the series. It was designed in close conjunction with the corresponding year's &lt;i&gt;British Social Attitudes Survey&lt;/i&gt;, though it had a number of distinct Scottish modules. For the third time in the series, the sample included a boost of addresses in remote and rural parts of Scotland.&lt;br&gt;