cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3903-1
title: General Household Survey, 1994 : Follow-Up Survey of the Health of People Aged 65 and Over

description: A Working Group on Health Expectancy was set up in late 1995 to provide expert advice to the Department of Health on the appropriate measures to use in the estimation of health expectancy (the expected number of years of disability-free life). The Working Group advised that health expectancy could not be properly monitored without longitudinal data, because it requires data on transition rates between health states. They recommended that the feasibility of collecting these data be investigated by following up and attempting to re-interview respondents aged 65 years and over interviewed in the 1994 &lt;i&gt;General Household Survey&lt;/i&gt; (held at the Data Archive under SN:3538). The Department of Health commissioned ONS to re-interview approximately 1000 elderly people, around two and a half years after the GHS interview. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine various methodological aspects of the feasibility of carrying out a cohort study, or a series of cohort studies, of the elderly. The key data required were those which would enable transition rates between health states to be monitored, but a further aim was to collect information on related issues such as the use of long term care services.&lt;br&gt; The main areas for consideration by the study were as follows:&lt;br&gt; whether it would be possible to get a sufficiently high response rate and what were the likely biases in response;&lt;br&gt; whether elderly respondents would be able to remember when particular health-related events happened and whether it would be possible to build up a history of health events between the two interviews;&lt;br&gt; an assessment of the quality of data on health, mobility and other relevant topics, informed by comparison of answers at the two surveys;&lt;br&gt; the optimum length of time between interviews: the longer the interval, the greater the number of health changes that occur, but less likely that the respondents remember the accurately;&lt;br&gt; what size of sample and what interval between interviews would provide sufficient changes in health state for health expectancy analysis.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3908-1
title: Westminster Historical Database, 1749-1820; Voters Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour
title: Voters Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour

description: The main aims of the project were to:&lt;br&gt; 1. Complete and validate the &lt;i&gt;Westminster Historical Database&lt;/i&gt; by including all extant poll book records together with selected rate book records for Westminster between 1749 and 1820;&lt;br&gt; 2. Design and execute experiments on the practice of record linkage using historical sources;&lt;br&gt; 3. Document the &lt;i&gt;Westminster Historical Database&lt;/i&gt; and prepare a guide to its effective use;&lt;br&gt; 4. Research and publish on voting behaviour and social structure in a pre-reform mass electorate;&lt;br&gt; 5. Research and publish on the theme of continuity and change in the economy of Westminster between 1749 and 1820.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3909-2
title: British Household Panel Survey Derived Current and Annual Net Household Income Variables, Waves 1-18, 1991-2009
title: British Household Panel Survey, 1991-2009
title: BHPS

description: The &lt;i&gt;Derived Current and Annual Net Household Income&lt;/i&gt; dataset provides derived net income variables for the &lt;i&gt;British Household Panel Survey&lt;/i&gt; (BHPS). It is an unofficial supplement to the set of derived income variables in the official BHPS release (which focus on gross income rather than net income). The purpose of these additional files is to provide an analysis of income and poverty dynamics in Britain, and related topics.&lt;br&gt;
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The aim of the research was to produce a longitudinal complement to the cross-section income distribution information provided by the Department of Social Security's (DSS) &lt;i&gt;Households Below Average Income&lt;/i&gt; (HBAI) reports, and to this end the HBAI definition of net income (DSS, 1993) has been closely adhered to. Also included in the data are BHPS versions of HBAI family type and economic status variables.&lt;br&gt;
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It is recommended that these data are used in conjunction with the main BHPS dataset, held at the UKDA under SN 5151. &lt;br&gt;
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The original deposit of this dataset was made in 1999, and contained data from BHPS waves 1-7. Subsequent editions were updated in conjunction with successive waves of BHPS. For the eighth edition (November 2008), new data for Waves 15 and 16 have been added to the study and data for Waves 1–14 and the documentation have been updated. For the ninth edition (April 2012), new data for Waves 17 and 18 have been added and the documentation has been updated accordingly. &lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.15468/dl.gs9var
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 27295 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "HasGeospatialIssue is false",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "BasisOfRecord is Human Observation",
 "TaxonKey is Castor canadensis",
 "Year is greater than or equal to 2020",
 "Country is one of (United States of America)"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 27295 records from 5 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031129-250920141307145/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-3921-1
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1996
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1983-
title: BSA

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research &lt;a title="British Social Attitudes" href="https://natcen.ac.uk/flagship-surveys"&gt;British Social Attitudes&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3922-1
title: Constituency Campaigning in the 1997 General Election
title: Consituency Campaigning in General Elections, 1992-

description: Over the last decade, there has been a renewal of interest in, and revaluation of, the effects of local constituency campaigning on the part of both academics and political parties. From the 1950s to the 1980s, as campaigning became more 'nationalised' - dominated by party leaders and focused almost exclusively on the national mass media - local constituency campaigns came to be seen as rather meaningless side-shows. During the 1980s, however, a significant 'revisionist' literature appeared, suggesting that effective and intense constituency campaigning could have a significant impact in terms of improved electoral performance by the parties and, partly as a consequence of this, the parties themselves have recently placed much more emphasis on local campaigning.&lt;br&gt;
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Five studies have been conducted in this series so far, of which four are currently available from the UK Data Archive. These cover the 1992 election (held under SN 3587), the 1997 election (SN 3922), 2001 election (SN 4508) and the 2010 election (SN 6830). A study was conducted in 2005, but the Archive does not hold the 2005 data.&lt;br&gt;
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 For the second study in the series, conducted after the 1997 general election, the principal investigators aimed to monitor changes in campaign techniques, develop further an index of campaign strength and to analyse the impact of variations in campaign intensity upon constituency election results.
DOI: 10.5519/qd.chiul88n
title: Query on the Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk) (1 records)
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3923-1
title: 1851 Census : Berkhamsted Superintendent Registrar's District, Hertfordshire

description: The aim of this project was to analyse population, economy and social and family structure in mid-19th century Hertfordshire, in comparative perspective.&lt;br&gt; The 1851 census was the first to provide details of both county and town or parish of birth of each individual, whilst clearer instructions were provided for the recording of occupations, the work of members of the head's family and for recording details of farm size and agricultural labour force. There is therefore a wealth of economic, social and demographic information contained in the 1851 census, whilst its consistent and highly structured format renders it ideally suited to treatment by database management systems.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3924-1
title: Scottish Referendum Survey, 1997

description: The &lt;i&gt;Scottish Referendum Survey&lt;/i&gt; was part of a more general study of the Scottish referendum of 1997, which covered the background to the referendum, local and national campaigning, media coverage and analysis of the results. The study aimed to provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of a major event in Scottish political history, to enhance knowledge of referendums and to draw lessons about the future use of referendums from the Scottish experience.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3925-1
title: Labour Disputes in the UK, 1997
title: Labour Disputes in the UK, 1966-
title: Industrial Stoppages Data

description: The database presents information on all stoppages of work officially recorded by the Office for National Statistics since 1966. &lt;br&gt;
The series was formerly known as &lt;i&gt;Industrial Stoppages Data&lt;/i&gt; and was the responsibility of the Employment Department. The title changed to &lt;i&gt;Labour Disputes in the UK&lt;/i&gt; in 1992 and the Office for National Statistics took over responsibility when the Employment Department was abolished in 1995.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3927-1
title: Crops, Debt and Labour in Two South Indian Villages, 1994-1995

description: These data form part of the research output of a study on &lt;i&gt;Gender and the Effects of Structural Adjustment in Rural India : a case study in Andhra Pradesh&lt;/i&gt;. The data are at the household unit of analysis. A related qualitative dataset sheds more light on gender and patriarchy than do these data. The data are aimed at making possible estimates of differential vulnerability to cuts in government subsidies. Full details of crops sown and harvested are given, along with all loans taken or outstanding (both bank and non-bank loans); records of tenancy and rent paid or received; estimates of labour by each person including children over a one-year period; and records of ration card ownership and actual uptake of rice, sugar and kerosene.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3929-1
title: Dissension in the House of Commons, 1979-1992

description: The main aims of this part of the research project were:&lt;br&gt; to generate a complete set of data of all incidents of intra-party dissension in the division lobbies of the House of Commons in the parliaments of 1979 to 1992 inclusively;&lt;br&gt; to identify and research the reasons for dissension in the Common's division lobbies and the events leading up to that dissension;&lt;br&gt; to analyse the data in order to identify trends in parliamentary behaviour and to generate and test explanations of that behaviour;&lt;br&gt; to identify and assess the consequences of changes in parliamentary behaviour for Parliament, for public policy, for the party in government, and for the legitimacy of the political system.&lt;br&gt; Two datasets resulting from the same research project, one containing dissension votes in the parliament of 1992-1997, and the other containing data on free votes in the parliaments between 1979 and 1997, are held at the Archive under SNs 4055 and 4056.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3931-1
title: National Survey of Voluntary Activity, 1997
title: National Survey of Voluntary Activity, 1991-
title: National Survey of Volunteering

description: The aims of this survey series are to ascertain :&lt;br&gt;
the proportion of the population who are involved in voluntary activity in the UK;&lt;br&gt;
the type of people most likely to volunteer;&lt;br&gt;
the types of activities in which volunteers are engaged;&lt;br&gt;
the motivations for volunteering;&lt;br&gt;
the benefits and drawbacks of voluntary work.&lt;br&gt;
 The 1997 survey was carried out by BMRB International on behalf of the National Centre for Volunteering (formerly the Volunteer Centre). The need to compare trends in voluntary activity over time required that the survey was to a large extent a repeat of the previous surveys conducted by SCPR in 1981 and 1991, although some new topics were covered.&lt;br&gt;
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A research project was carried out by the National Centre for Social Research in partnership with the Institute for Volunteering Research in 2006/7, as a follow-up to the Citizenship Survey, 2005. The resulting study, the National Survey of Volunteering and Charitable Giving, 2006-2007, is held at the UKDA under SN 5793.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3932-1
title: Television and Press Coverage of the 1997 British General Election

description: The aims and objectives of the project were :&lt;br&gt; to assess the impact of structural change in media coverage of politics through a content analysis of main evening television news programmes and national newspapers in the run-up to and during the four week general election campaign; &lt;br&gt; to examine the nature and extent of change since the 1992 election in the national newspapers and television news and to compare this news with other countries, based on comparable studies in Germany (1990, 1994), Spain (1993 and forthcoming) and the USA (1992, 1996);&lt;br&gt; to explore the dynamics and outcomes of the agenda setting battle at the next general election;&lt;br&gt; to address questions of media effects, via a triangulated collaborative venture involving the ESRC-funded CREST panel survey and the proposed experimental study of television news by David Sanders and Pippa Norris.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3933-1
title: Object-Oriented Development Process Practices, 1997

description: The dataset forms part of the research information for a project entitled &lt;i&gt;Design Patterns for Reuse and the Software Development Life Cycle Model&lt;/i&gt;. The aim of this project was to demonstrate the feasibility of incorporating patterns-based design techniques into an object-oriented development process model (industrial strength).
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3935-1
title: Offenders Index Cohort Data, 1953-1997
title: Cohorts of Offenders Born in Sample Weeks in 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973 and 1978

description: The data were drawn from the Home Office Offenders Index to provide estimates of the prevalence of offending (as measured by convictions for 'Standard List' offences) in the population of England and Wales. Results were last reported in detail in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 14/95 &lt;i&gt;Criminal careers of those born between 1953 and 1973&lt;/i&gt; (1995). One of the main results reported is that an estimated 34% of men and 8% of women had at least one conviction for a Standard List offence before the age of forty. The percentage of males with a custodial sentence before the age of forty is 7% and females less than 1%.&lt;br&gt; The cohort data includes information on court appearances and convictions for individual anonymised offenders. As such it provides a resource for investigating patterns of convictions for known offenders and modelling their interaction with the criminal justice system.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3950-1
title: ESRC/JISC Questionnaire to Users of Census Data : Views About the 2001 Census of Population, 1997
title: Workshops Planning for the 2001 Census : Determining Academic Community Needs and Strategy

description: The objectives of the project were :&lt;br&gt; to prepare the case for the ESRC/JISC purchase of 2001 Census datasets and to prepare the case for a Census Programme and suggest directions it might take;&lt;br&gt; to prepare options for ESRC/JISC on the dissemination of the datasets;&lt;br&gt; to prepare proposals to the Census Offices on Census questions, methods and products;&lt;br&gt; to prepare proposals to the Census Offices on collaborative ventures;&lt;br&gt; to advise on a strategy for negotiations with the Census Offices.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; A similar survey, for the 1991 Census, was conducted in 1987 by Marsh, C. et al : the data from this study are held at the Data Archive under SN:2460.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3952-1
title: Scottish and Welsh Referendum Studies, 1997

description: The Scottish and Welsh Referendum Studies were conducted immediately after the 1997 referendums on devolution. The objectives were to:&lt;br&gt; understand the sources of support for constitutional change in Scotland and Wales and the influences on voting behaviour in the referendums;&lt;br&gt; to explore the expectations which the electorates had of their parliament/ assembly;&lt;br&gt; to assess how voters are likely to behave at future elections to the parliament/assembly;&lt;br&gt; to assess the possible impact the parliament/assembly may have on future constitutional change;&lt;br&gt; comparative analysis of Scotland and Wales
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3954-1
title: British Household Panel Survey Combined Work-Life History Data, 1990-2005
title: British Household Panel Survey, 1991-2009
title: BHPS

description: The &lt;i&gt;British Household Panel Survey&lt;/i&gt; (BHPS), which ran for 19 waves from 1991-2009, collected extensive information on respondents' labour market status at three points: at the time of interview at each wave of the panel; throughout the period between 1 September a year before the interview date; and retrospectively from when the respondent first left full-time education. Because the retrospective information has been collected in two tranches (one focusing on employment status, the other on occupational information), there are four different types of labour market history information, located in different files in the BHPS database. This complexity is a necessary aspect of longitudinal information, but had inhibited use of the work-life history data. In order to better facilitate such use, a set of 'reconciled' files, the &lt;i&gt;British Household Panel Survey Combined Work-Life History Data&lt;/i&gt;, was created, constituting single continuous records each containing all the information of a particular type in a single location. The first part of the exercise was to take 'current status' information for each wave and combine it with the inter-wave history, and then to combine the waves thus creating a continuous record from September 1990 to the latest wave. The second stage was to take the lifetime employment status history collected at Wave 2, and the lifetime occupational history collected at Wave 3, and to combine each of them with analogous information drawn from the combined panel file, thus creating employment and occupational histories that stretch from the labour market entry to the latest wave. The third stage was to combine these two extended lifetime histories into a single record which contains both employment status information (with good information about non-employed spells) and occupational information (i.e. details about the job held during each employed spell). Further details of the methods used are included in the following technical paper: Halpin, B. (1997) &lt;i&gt;Unified BHPS work-life histories: combining multiple sources into a user-friendly format&lt;/i&gt;, Technical Papers of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, 13, Colchester: University of Essex. &lt;br&gt;
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Users are recommended to use these data in conjunction with the main &lt;a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200005" title="BHPS"&gt;BHPS&lt;/a&gt; dataset. It should also be noted that this dataset is in package format; see READ file for further details on formats and use.&lt;br&gt;
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For the fifth edition (November 2006), the files 'newpan', 'xlempe' and 'xljobe' were updated. The rest of the data and documentation remain unchanged.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3955-1
title: Workplace Employee Relations Survey: Cross-Section, 1998
title: Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 1980-
title: WERS; WERS98; WERS Panel Survey, 1998-2004: Wave 1

description:   The &lt;i&gt;Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 1998&lt;/i&gt; (WERS98) is the fourth in a series of surveys which began in 1980 (previously known as the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, or WIRS - the name was changed in 1998 to better reflect the content of the present survey). Its primary aim is to provide statistically reliable, nationally representative data on the current state of workplace relations and employment practices in Britain.&lt;br&gt;
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The &lt;a href="http://www.niesr.ac.uk/research/wers98/" title="WERS98 Data Dissemination Service"&gt;WERS98 Data Dissemination Service&lt;/a&gt; was established in October 1999 at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). The Service was funded for a two year period by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and closed in January 2002. All major activity has now ceased, but the web site will continue to remain live for the benefit of WERS98 users and those interested in WERS98. Users may also be interested in WERS2004: the WERS 2004 study is held at the UKDA under SN 5294, and a similar analysis and dissemination service, the &lt;a href="http://www.wers2004.info/index.php" title="WERS2004 Information and Advice Service"&gt;WERS2004 Information and Advice Service&lt;/a&gt; (WIAS) has also been established.&lt;br&gt;
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For the seventh edition (October 2007), a file containing updated Travel-to-Work Area (TTWA) variables was deposited, with accompanying documentation, to replace the previous file 'local98'. See documentation for further details.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3956-1
title: General Household Survey, 1995: Teaching Dataset

description: The &lt;i&gt;General Household Survey, 1995 : Teaching Dataset&lt;/i&gt; has been prepared solely for the purpose of teaching and student use. Most of the names of the variables and value labels are those used in the original General Household Survey (GHS) files. However, some variables have been recoded for ease of use and may vary from the original GHS data.&lt;br&gt; For the new edition of August 2000, the depositor supplied a new data file - the original file contained an error, which had resulted in adult values being copied into the records of children aged under 16. Please see the READ file for further details. &lt;br&gt; The original GHS 1995-1996 dataset is held at the Archive under SN:3690.