cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4349-1
title: Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion, 1999
title: PSE

description: The Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) was designed to update the Breadline Britain Surveys which were conducted by Mori in 1983 and 1990 (see also Gordon et al, Breadline Britain in the 1990s). Firstly, a representative sample of the population of Great Britain was asked for their views on what constitutes the necessities of life in present day Britain. This was done in June 1999 using the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Omnibus Survey. Secondly, a specially selected sample was drawn from respondents to the 1998/99 General Household Survey, and interviewed in detail about their circumstances and their views on a range of issues associated with poverty and social exclusion. This dataset is associated with the second aspect of the survey; the follow-up to the GHS, referred to as PSE.&lt;br&gt; The aims of the PSE survey were:&lt;br&gt; To update the Breadline Britain Surveys;&lt;br&gt; To estimate the size of groups of households in different circumstances;&lt;br&gt; To explore movement in and out of poverty;&lt;br&gt; To look at age and gender difference in experiences of and responses to poverty.&lt;br&gt; It is planned that a similar survey will be carried out in other countries.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4350-1
title: 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic Mortality in England and Wales

description: The aim of this project was to examine various aspects of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in Britain, particularly in England and Wales. The research was undertaken as part of the depositor's PhD project entitled &lt;i&gt;Aspects of the historical geography of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Britain&lt;/i&gt; for the University of Cambridge.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4351-1
title: Scottish Household Survey, 1999-2000
title: Scottish Household Survey, 1999-
title: SHS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Scottish Household Survey&lt;/em&gt; (SHS) is a continuous survey based on a sample of the general population in private residences in Scotland. It is financed by the Scottish Government (previously the Scottish Executive). The survey started in 1999 and up to 2011 followed a fairly consistent survey design. From 2012 onwards, the survey was substantially redesigned to include elements of the &lt;em&gt;Scottish House Condition Survey&lt;/em&gt; (SHCS) (also available from the UK Data Service), including the physical survey. The SHS is run through a consortium led by Ipsos MORI. The survey is designed to provide reliable and up-to-date information on the composition, characteristics, attitudes and behaviour of private households and individuals, both nationally and at a sub-national level and to examine the physical condition of Scotland's homes. It covers a wide range of topics to allow links to be made between different policy areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the survey series, and links to publications, can be found on the Scottish Government's &lt;a title="Scottish Household Survey" href="https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-household-survey/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Scottish Household Survey&lt;/a&gt; webpages.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;COVID-19 restrictions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the SHS was conducted by telephone or via MS Teams in 2020 and 2021 (SNs 9186 and 9187). Face-to-face interviewing resumed for SHS 2022 (SN 9294) when restrictions had been lifted.&lt;/p&gt; For the fifth edition, the depositor supplied five &lt;i&gt;Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation&lt;/i&gt; (SIMD) and urban-rural classification variables, which have been added to the main data file.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4352-1
title: Shyness and Children's Vocabulary Scores, 2000

description: The study examined the influence of conditions of test administration upon shy children's performance on tests of vocabulary. Prior research had established that shy children differ from their peers not only in their use of language in routine social encounters, but also in formal assessments of their language development, including psychometric tests of vocabulary. This has been interpreted in terms of deficits in shy children's communicative competence. An alternative hypothesis is that shy children are more anxious when tested. The two hypotheses were tested within a sample of 9-10 year-olds by examining children's performance when they undertook tests either individually with an examiner or among their peers within the familiar classroom setting. Care was taken to remedy some shortcomings in the design of previous studies, for example in the identification of shy children. Shy children performed significantly more poorly in the individual condition relative to the group condition, providing support for the social anxiety hypothesis. A younger cohort of children (aged 4-5 years) completed the vocabulary and mental arithmetic tests, but differences between shy and less shy were not significant. Nevertheless there was a trend for shy children to perform less well than their peers in all conditions. These findings are of theoretical interest but also have practical implications for testing children, especially as the assessment of young children is increasingly common in schools.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4354-1
title: Non-Industrial Civil Service Staff Statistics : British Isles, 1939-1999

description: The aims of the project were:&lt;br&gt; to analyse the factors propelling change in the Civil Service outside Whitehall;&lt;br&gt; to create a database of the Civil Service outside Whitehall covering numbers of employees, units, expenditure and functions;&lt;br&gt; to map the procedures for recruitment, promotion, training, pay and conditions of employment;&lt;br&gt; to describe how those who work in the Civil Service outside Whitehall perceive both their work and the Civil Service;&lt;br&gt; to explore the tensions between territorial and functional politics. &lt;br&gt; The dataset is compiled from official sources covering 1939-1999.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.hec8zc
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 8 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 The dataset includes 8 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031143-250920141307145/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-4357-1
title: 1991 Census Ethnic Group Occupations

description: These data were prepared for the ESRC Project 'Ethnicity, Sex and Motherhood: Occupational Segregation and Disadvantage in Women's Working Lives'. One of the aims of this project was to examine patterns of occupational segregation by both sex and by ethnic group at a more detailed level than is possible with publicly-available data. A cross-sectional picture of segregation in 1991 showed ethnic variations in patterns of sex segregation and sex differences in segregation by ethnic group. In addition, the research explored patterns of gender and ethnic advantage and disadvantage in the occupational structure.&lt;br&gt; Users who wish to find out more about data from the 1991 census should visit the &lt;br&gt; &lt;a href=http://census.ac.uk&gt;Census.ac.uk&lt;/a&gt; web site.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4358-1
title: Residents' Preferences for Land Use Mix and Development Density, Cardiff, 2000

description: The objectives of the project were: &lt;br&gt; to measure and investigate, with the use of stated preference (SP) techniques and qualitative interviews, citizens' demands for a range of urban living solutions;&lt;br&gt; to model citizens' demands for particular components of the compact city environment;&lt;br&gt; to use results from SP analysis and qualitative research to gain understanding of the market for new forms of sustainable urban living;&lt;br&gt; to use the results to gain an understanding of the problems and possibilities when attempting to re-engineer the residential preferences of UK citizens in favour of more sustainable forms of living environment;&lt;br&gt; to interview a small number of key players in the development industry to assist understanding of the supply-side of the market.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4359-1
title: Prison Reading Survey, 1997

description: There is a widespread belief that literacy levels among offenders are lower than those in the general population. A frequently-associated belief is that if their reading problems were to be addressed, then offenders would abandon anti-social ways and pursue law-abiding careers. The Prison Reading Survey investigates the basis for these beliefs by assessing the prevalence of reading problems in a systematic random sample of 203 adult male offenders serving custodial sentences in a representative selection of several prisons across the range of security classifications in England and Wales. It enquires into the diversity and likely causes or exacerbating circumstances of offenders' reading problems, using a structured interview with assessments of verbal and non-verbal ability, receptive syntax, social cognition, and self-reported behaviours associated with childhood attention-deficit and hyperactivity; and it considers the hypothesis that developmental dyslexia is a disproportionate cause of these problems. The study also reviews the development and pervasiveness of historical accounts of the association between literacy and behaviour.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4361-1
title: Innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart, 1999-2000

description: The theoretical aim of this research is to examine and understand why innovative and competitive firms tend to cluster in a limited number of particular cities. The project is also seeking to understand the observed variety of supplier and customer arrangements among firms and the interactions between these and the firms' home city regions.&lt;br&gt; These concerns raise questions about the characteristics of different stages of the innovation process and why firms' activities have been seen to vary from flexibly specialised local production networks, in mainly craft-based older industries, in new industrial districts; to individually produced innovations linked primarily in the context of competitive secrecy to major international customers.&lt;br&gt; Research on the London region (further London data are also held separately in the companion study to this one, SN:4360 'Innovation in the London Region, 1999-2000') was informed by the comparative perspective of innovation studies in the four European cities of Amsterdam, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. A common questionnaire was administered in the five cities to a common sample frame of innovative companies who had won awards for basic research in industrial technologies for Europe (BRITE). In addition to this common sample frame, innovative firms drawn from local databases were also interviewed. The lessons from this first stage of the research were taken forward into a more in-depth research study of innovative and external support systems in the London metropolitan region where the sampling frame was identified using a variety of innovation awards. The purpose of gathering data for the five European cities in one study was to implement a common methodology for five of the most innovative regions in Europe. The regions were selected from a group of ten cities identified by the European Union as the ten most significant islands of innovation within the EU. Data were collected from 160 telephone interviews with industrial firms who were asked about specific innovative projects - an average of 32 firms from each city.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4362-1
title: A/AS Level Examination Data for Advanced Multilevel Modelling, 1994-1997

description: This dataset contains administrative records of candidates taking A/AS level examinations, matched with their GCSE examination results, for the years 1994-1997. The data were taken from yearly records produced by examination boards for statistical results for the DfEE from 1993, and updated yearly.&lt;br&gt; The project aimed to develop multilevel modelling techniques to handle measurements with errors efficiently and handle ordered categorical data such as examination grade scales, and to study the relationship between multiple outcomes of subject scores. The project also studied the effects of gender, institution type and examination board on results, and changes over time in the pattern of these effects.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4363-1
title: Development of Perceptual Causality, 1996-2000

description: This project concerns the tendency to perceive cause-and-effect in schematic events: If square A moves up to B, which moves away at or before contact, adults see this as A launching B, or as B running from A. Thus they relate minimal perceptual information to complex notions of causality in mechanical or purposeful interactions. Prior research found sensitivity to contact causality in infants. This may provide a perceptual blueprint for early understanding of physical cause. The present project focusses on perception of causality without contact. This could provide a blueprint for early understanding of social/psychological causation - people/animals often interact at a distance because they perceive one another from afar. &lt;br&gt; Three issues are addressed experimentally: (1) Whether preverbal infants see causality in noncontact events or merely spatiotemporal sequences. To assess this, infants' visual attention is measured; one event repeats until attention decreases, then its recovery is measured on exposure to a new event. (2) How older children and adults' verbal judgements map contact and noncontact relations to psychological and physical causality. (3) How this is affected by the objects appearing animate. This work applies a novel approach to the study of children's causal understanding. Results will shed light on the perceptual basis of social cognition.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4364-1
title: Genevan Sex Crimes Database, c.1440-c.1790

description: The study examined in detail over 300 criminal trials surviving in Geneva relating to sexual deviance (homosexuality, male rape/sexual assault, paedophilia, lesbianism, bestiality, adolescent sexual experimentation, female rape/sexual assault, adultery and fornication). These trials, in which verbatim testimony and numerous depositions by witnesses survive, give an ideal place to test pre-Freudian ideas of sexual development, sexual categories and sexual self-awareness.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4371-1
title: Youth Progression in the North-East of England, 1990-2001
title: ROUTES

description: The research objectives may be summarized as follows:&lt;br&gt; to identify the aids and obstacles to the successful progression to adult life that affect young people between the ages of 16 and 25 living in the North-East of England, and to put young people at the centre of the research and give them a voice through a programme of personal interviews;&lt;br&gt; to study low achievers and potential drop-outs from national youth surveys by collecting new data on this group of young people who generally do not respond to cohort surveys, and whose absence from the resulting data has unbalanced the conclusions drawn from it;&lt;br&gt; to compare the augmented sample with results obtained by research partners in continental Europe, and evaluate the methodology of direct compensation for survey drop-out and attrition by targeted re-sampling of typical non-respondents;&lt;br&gt; to identify and assess the impact of local, regional and national structures on the life chances of the young people in the survey, and describe the ways in which changes in policy affect their opportunities;&lt;br&gt; to disseminate the results of this research in a way that assures accessibility to non-academic as well as academic users, and to interpret them in a way which will encourage their integration into future initiatives.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4375-1
title: National Sample from the 1881 Censuses of Great Britain
title: 1881 Census for Great Britain

description: This computerised transcription of the census enumerators' books for the 1881 Census for England, Scotland and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is a by-product of a project to create a microfiche index of the population of Great Britain for genealogists. Covering the entire enumerated population of England, Scotland and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in 1881, it is the largest collection of historical source material to be made available in computerised form. The data consists of the name, address, relationship to the head of household, marital status, age, occupation and birthplace of some 26 million individuals, together with information about disabilities.&lt;br&gt;
In 1999 the Genealogical Society of Utah published a version of this computerised transcription as a CD-ROM product suitable for genealogical research (Genealogical Society of Utah (1999) 1881 British census and national index. [25 CDs]. Salt Lake City, Utah: GSU). This study is an enriched version of these data. The sample is a 5 per cent random sample of the parishes of Great Britain. The sample was chosen in the simplest manner possible. A list of all the parishes in England, Wales, Scotland and the Islands in the British Seas was created; using a random number generator in Microsoft Excel, a random number between zero and one was allocated to each parish. All those less than or equal to 0.05 were selected for the sample. The records relating to the individuals in each of these parishes were then extracted from the data and combined in a database.&lt;br&gt;
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Tables B1 and B3 in Appendix B of the documentation list the 716 parishes in the sample.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4376-1
title: Violence in the North West with Special Reference to Liverpool and Manchester 1850-1914

description: The project was intended to investigate all forms of interpersonal violence, from common assault to murder, in the second half of the 19th century, and to attempt to differentiate and contextualise the range of violent offences. The aims of the project were to:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; 1. Expand and enhance historical understanding and knowledge of violence in the second half of the nineteenth century&lt;br&gt; 2. Examine critically the accepted interpretation that there was a long-term decline in violence, placing special emphasis on the 1870s as a possible 'watershed' decade&lt;br&gt; 3. Examine, where possible, under-reported crimes of violence directed at women and children&lt;br&gt; 4. Examine contemporary reactions to and perceptions of violence&lt;br&gt; 5. Provide the first full historical study of all types of violent crime which offers depth and context to studies of crime in the late twentieth century
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4380-1
title: Parents' Demand for Childcare, 1999
title: Parents' Demand for Childcare, 1999-

description: The &lt;i&gt;Parents' Demand for Childcare&lt;/i&gt; surveys study the demand for childcare among parents of children aged 14 years and under. As such, they form part of the ongoing evaluation of the Government's &lt;i&gt;National Childcare Strategy&lt;/i&gt;. The first survey was conducted in 1999, and formed a baseline survey for comparison with the second wave, which was conducted in 2001. A further wave is planned for 2004. Users should note that whereas the 1999 survey was conducted in England and Wales, the 2001 survey was restricted to England.&lt;br&gt;
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The survey series was designed to investigate the use of childcare by parents and to explore the factors that influence their decision to use childcare and how these relate to their participation in the labour market. Specifically, the aims of the research are as follows:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to establish the level of usage and take-up of childcare by parents with children aged 0-14&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to discover what influences a parent's decision to use childcare&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to assess the financial cost of paid-for childcare&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to assess parents' satisfaction with current childcare arrangements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to establish parents' unmet demand for childcare&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to identify parents' ideal childcare provision&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to assess parents' knowledge of the availability of childcare in their local area&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to ascertain the extent to which their current childcare arrangements enable parents to take up paid work, education and training and what activities are associated with the use of childcare.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4382-1
title: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers, 1999; England
title: England
title: Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren; Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People

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-4383-1
title: Weekly British Grain Prices from the London Gazette, 1770-1820

description: The period of the study was characterised by major improvements in financial institutions and transport. The objectives of the study were to see how pricing behaviour changed as a result of this. Since the prices are weekly and by county, it is possible to see how seasonality and regional patterns changed over time. Quantifying the effects of these changes should enable us to see their relative importance in promoting economic growth.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The general aim of our research has been to increase our understanding of market integration and its effect on economic performance - particularly in the context of financial markets and commodity markets. Our specific objectives were (i) to create a major dataset of eighteenth and nineteenth century grain prices which can be used within our research project and which could also potentially be useful for other researchers; (ii) to estimate an econometric model to quantify the changes in financial markets, especially the spread of country banks (iii) to estimate an econometric model to measure the effects of transport networks; (iv) to use our results from to estimate the social welfare gains from market integration and to relate the improvements in market integration to the major changes in agricultural practice.