cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4426-1
title: Relation Between Visual Properties and Action : Experimental Data, 1999-2000

description: The data come from a series of experiments investigating the role of action in object representation. All the experiments involved variants of the Simon task (a type of Stimulus Response Compatibility) where a task irrelevant object property (the cue-property) was used to cue a response that was compatible or incompatible with an object affordance. Participants made speeded responses according to the cue-property of the object. The main interest was to see if the object affordances for action influenced the speed and accuracy with which participants executed their responses.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4427-1
title: Families and Children Study: Waves 1-10, 1999-2008
title: Families and Children Study
title: FACS

description: The &lt;i&gt;Families and Children Study&lt;/i&gt; (FACS), formerly known as the &lt;i&gt;Survey of Low Income Families&lt;/i&gt; (SOLIF), originally provided a new baseline survey of Britain's lone-parent families and low-income couples with dependent children. The survey was named SOLIF for Waves 1 and 2, and FACS from Wave 3 onwards.&lt;br&gt;
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The FACS study has become a 'true panel', whereby 1999 respondents have been re-interviewed in subsequent annual waves in from 2000 to 2004, and new families added in each of these years, to allow representative cross-section as well as longitudinal comparisons. Starting with Wave 3 (2001) the survey was extended to include higher-income families, thereby yielding a complete sample of all British families (and the subsequent name change). From Wave 4 (2002) onwards, longitudinal comparisons can now be made.&lt;br&gt;
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The main objectives of the survey are to:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;evaluate the effectiveness of the Government's work incentive measures in terms of helping people into work, improving living standards and improving child outcomes &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;compare the living standards and outcomes for children and for families across the income distribution &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;compare changes in the above across the waves since 1999 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;FACS also aims to provide commentary on longer-term objectives such as the Government's Public Service Agreement to eradicate child poverty within a generation.&lt;br&gt;
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Further information, including links to reports and other publications, may be found on the DWP &lt;a href="http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/facs/" title="Families and Children Study"&gt;FACS&lt;/a&gt; web pages.&lt;br&gt;
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Users should note that, in addition to the survey name change noted above, some of the documentation for the early waves refers to the survey as the &lt;i&gt;Study of Families with Children&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
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The original deposit of FACS, released in December 2001, contained data and documentation from the first wave. Further waves have been added at subsequent editions in 2003, 2004 (twice), 2005, 2006 and 2007. &lt;br&gt;
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For the eighth edition (October 2010), three major changes were made to the study: data and documentation for Waves 8-10 were deposited for the first time; updated and improved data and documentation for Waves 3-7 were deposited to replace previous materials; and updated documentation covering all waves was deposited. Details of improvements to the redeposited Wave 3-7 data are included in the all waves user guide. For the ninth edition (January 2011), the Wave 10 technical report was added to the study.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4429-1
title: Violence in Early Modern England: a Regional Survey: Cheshire, 1600-1800

description: The aim of this project was to carry out a systematic investigation and analysis of crimes of violence tried in the courts of the county of Cheshire, in the period 1601-1800. The core of the study is formed by details of homicides prosecuted at the Court of Great Sessions at Chester over this period, with supplementary data dealing with non-homicidal violence, notably from the County Quarter Sessions of Cheshire and the Chester City Sessions. As well as the quantitative results drawn from these samples, analysis of depositions and an account of a murder case in Saighton in 1648, published in the &lt;i&gt;Cheshire Sheaf&lt;/i&gt; in 1937, allows the reconstruction of insights into the qualitative and attitudinal aspects of the history of violence.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The objectives of the study were: firstly, to add new dimensions to the ongoing debate on the history of violence in England; secondly, to gain insights through the history of violence into the changing social psychology of the early modern English; and, thirdly, to provide a body of material on violence from a past culture which will provide useful points of comparison for studies of violence in modern Britain, as well as providing a body of findings against which current theoretical assumptions about violence might be tested.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4430-1
title: Political Communication and Devolution in Northern Ireland, 2000-2001

description: The primary aim of this project was to examine the impact of devolution on the process of political communication in Northern Ireland. More specifically, the study examined changes in the role, organisation and output of the media; the government information service in Northern Ireland; the political communication efforts of the political parties and the Northern Ireland Assembly; and the lobbying and media strategies of the voluntary sector.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The key theoretical question underpinning the study was whether changes in the formal and informal structures of political communication in Northern Ireland appeared to be facilitating the development of a more inclusive and participatory form of democracy. With regard to the media, the study also examined changes in the way the media organised its political coverage and in the way it reported political, social and economic issues.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The other major area of enquiry concerned changes in the organisation and strategies of the political communication efforts of the government information service and the political parties in Northern Ireland. The study examined the process of negotiation between government press officers and the parties with regard to the communication of government policy matters. It also investigated the extent to which each of these organisations was able to influence the media's agenda. Finally, the study also examined the political communication strategy of the Northern Ireland Assembly itself.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4431-1
title: Cambridge Centre for Business Research SME Dataset (Second Panel), 1997

description: The main objective of the research project was to create a longitudinal panel database of SME data relating to a wide range of non-financial and attitudinal characteristics, and a limited number of financial variables not normally available in modified company accounts, from a national postal survey. This database forms the beginning of the second panel - the first panel was started in 1991. A postal survey was sent to over 10,000 independent small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing and business services sectors in England, Scotland and Wales. Just over half (5,430) the firms were telephoned prior to being sent the questionnaire, and 4,640 firms were sent the questionnaire blind.&lt;br&gt; One other study concerned with SMEs by the same Principal Investigator(s) is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 4156.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4432-1
title: Cambridge Centre for Business Research Media Dataset, 1992-1995

description: The principal aim of this project was to examine the impact on the competitiveness of the UK media industries of three related developments: (1) changes in economic organisation which have seen greater use of contracting, outsourcing and vertical disintegration; (2) shifts in the regulatory framework for broadcasting and the role of markets and competition in the delivery of the broadcast media; and (3) rapid technological change and increasing global competition in the media industries.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4433-1
title: Cambridge Centre for Business Research Professional Services Firms Dataset, 1990-1997

description: The theories which have sought to explain the phenomena of agglomeration and deglomeration of firms have focused mostly on manufacturing industries and are dominated by manufacturing paradigms. Many of the factors cited in these theories to derive agglomeration may not be applicable to professional business service (PBS) industries (such as internal and external economies of scale, disintegration, flexible specialisation). Yet, geographic clusters of firms, especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) competing in the same industry, exist also in PBS industries to which existing theory provides only limited explanation. &lt;br&gt; The location of PBS firms has attracted the attention of economic geographers, who have also sought explanations for the concentration of these firms in particular locations. The main reason cited to explain this phenomenon is demand driven, that is, PBS firms locate themselves in proximity to their clients. This explanation seems to be limited and does not acknowledge a range of both demand and supply factors which may affect this pattern of geographical concentration.&lt;br&gt; This research seeks explanations for two apparently contradictory phenomena related to the location of PBS firms. The first is the existence of geographical clusters of PBS SMEs in large metropolitan centres such as London. The second is the deglomeration of PBS SMEs, to the extent that these have been locating since the 1970s in smaller towns and even rural areas of England away from the main geographical clusters. The research is designed to acknowledge the unique characteristics of these industries (such as short value added chains typically implemented by a single production unit, limited potential for economies of scale in production, competitive advantage based on embodied expertise), which distinguish them from both manufacturing and other service industries, and which may explain both the geographical clusters of some firms in these industries and the de-concentration of others.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4434-1
title: Cambridge Centre for Business Research Manufacturing Strategy and Competitiveness Dataset, 1994-1999

description: The focus of this research was on the high technology manufacturing sector, where the rate and extent of change in the firm environment are extremely high. The main aim of the project was to take a contingency theory perspective in linking manufacturing strategy to firms' overall strategy, in the context of changing environmental conditions.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4435-1
title: Orange Order Lodge Membership, Northern Ireland, 1893-2000

description: The aim of the project was to copy all surviving Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland printed county reports, for the period 1893 to 2000, held at the Grand Lodge of Ireland, Belfast.&lt;br&gt; The data records membership of Orange lodges in Antrim, Derry and Down. A future aim of the project is to fill as many of the holes in the dataset as possible through county-level research and further Orange contacts, and to regress this data against census, survey, event-history, police and electoral data. Ultimately the intention is to make an assessment as to why Orange membership and power rises or declines across time and place in Ulster, Scotland and Canada in the twentieth century.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4440-1
title: Vital Statistics for England and Wales, 1999; DVS1, DVS2, DVS3, DVS4, DVS4d, DVS5
title: DVS1, DVS2, DVS3, DVS4, DVS4d, DVS5

description: The purpose of the &lt;i&gt;Vital Statistics for England and Wales&lt;/i&gt; data is to record the numbers of conceptions, live births, stillbirths, deaths and causes of death for persons in England and Wales, by gender and age. Data are available at local authority, health authority and ward level. Individual studies in the series record various parts of these data. Changes have been made over time to the way in which the Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects vital statistics data, resulting in some variation in the content of later studies in the series. Further information may be found in the &lt;i&gt;Key Population and Vital Statistics&lt;/i&gt; reports available from the ONS web site.&lt;br&gt;
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During 2006, Sam Smith and colleagues at ESDS Government carried out work on various studies in the series prior to 2002, to improve the data format. The resulting files have been redeposited at the UKDA. More information is available in the documentation for the studies concerned.&lt;br&gt;
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 The data cover mainly local and health authority level data for 1999: births and deaths summary data, births data, mortality data by cause, infant and perinatal mortality data. Some data at ward level are also included: births and deaths by wards and deaths by selected causes by wards.&lt;br&gt;
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For the second edition (2006), work was carried out on parts of the data by ESDS Government to produce more user-friendly tab-delimited ASCII files. For the third edition (October 2008), the files from DVS1 and DVS3 were added to complete the dataset. The data are also available in Excel and ONS ITELite format. &lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4442-1
title: Alcohol and Suicide, Jews and Protestants, 1999-2000

description: The aims of the project were to examine alcohol- and suicide-related beliefs among UK Protestants and Jews, both men and women, to investigate the so-called alcohol-suicide-depression hypothesis. This hypothesis suggests that attitudes to alcohol use and suicide will be more favourable among Protestants than Jews, and among men more than women. Questionnaire measures of alcohol- and suicide-related beliefs and behaviour assessed the dependent variables in an analysis of covariance design. The independent variables were cultural-religious group (Protestant vs. Jewish background or affiliation). Covariates, assessed by questionnaire measures, were religiosity, depression, anxiety, and (a new measure of) tolerance for depression.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4443-1
title: London Mayoral Election Study, 2000

description: The survey formed part of the Leverhulme Foundation's 'Nation and Regions' research programme. A major piece of constitutional reform of the 1997-2001 parliament was the establishment of newly devolved assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The 1997 Labour election manifesto also committed the government to a directly elected mayor and assembly for London. This was intended to be the forerunner of similar arrangements in other English regions. After narrowly winning the referendum, the first elections to the new institutions were held, using proportional representation, in May 2000.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey was designed to answer several questions about the elections: how were the new institutions perceived? What were the major factors associated with turnout and vote choice - national level considerations and party identity, London issues, support for the new institutions, the personalities of the candidates, or London identity? How well were the new electoral systems understood, and did this affect turnout?&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; A survey conducted by University College London on the re-run of the 2000 London Mayoral election is held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 4419. A later survey by the same centre, covering the 2004 London Mayoral election (along with the London Assembly and London Region European Parliament elections held at the same time) is held under SN 5277.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4444-1
title: Decision Making Styles in Financial Behaviour : Towards a Method for Measurement and Application, 2000-2001

description: The research sought to fill a gap in knowledge and practice about individual differences in how professionals in the financial services industry make decisions. The practical importance of the investigation relates to potentially important effects on both person-job fit and performance. Identifying orientations that relate differentially to decision environments in finance, e.g. functional roles and types of markets, could help guide key placement decisions and developmental discussions at the workplace. The facets of decision style focused upon in this research came from two sources: suggestions arising from the Principal Investigators' previous research and an extensive literature review. The literature reveals a number of different aspects of decision making. Of these, five related closely to the distinctions observed in the previous research and seemed likely to be more generally pertinent to the finance environment: achievement, emotional involvement, risk preferences, structure (vs. autonomy) and spontaneity (vs. deliberation).&lt;br&gt; The research had three objectives. First, to develop an effective measure of several aspects of decision making that were likely to impact upon person-job fit and the performance of individuals in the financial environment (the Decision Making Styles Questionnaire, DMSQ). Second, to develop such a measure would contribute to understanding in decision theory. Third, the application of a measure of decision styles could provide valuable data relevant to individual and organisational performance. The prior research found that in the field the selection, placement and advancement of people in finance decision-making tends to be unsystematic without any attention to non-technical criteria such as psychological profile. In the finance industry, the cumulative effect of even a small mismatch between an individual and their job requirements could lead to preventable losses. Hence a measure that provided individual profiles that could be matched to job characteristics would be likely to prove useful in many organisations.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4445-1
title: Quantity and Quality of Spatial Information About Public Transport in 58 European Towns, 1992-2000

description: The investigator's aim was to assess the quality of spatial information about urban public transport in towns in one country with deregulated buses (Britain) and in four less wealthy countries of Europe, to compare the quality with that in the 11 wealthy countries with regulated public transport which were previously studied in 1995, and to assess the reasons for the differences. The specific objectives were:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to compare the availability and quality of spatial information about urban public transport for travellers in western European countries where public transport is regulated, with that in Britain where the buses are deregulated, and to investigate whether deregulation is the cause of the difference&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to compare the availability and quality of spatial information about urban public transport for travellers in wealthy western European countries, with that in poorer countries in Western Europe, and &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to investigate whether lack of funding is the cause of the difference.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4446-1
title: Competitive City and Urban Policy : Modelling Discretionary Grant Allocation in the UK, 1994-1998

description: The aim of the research was to examine the relative contribution of need, bid-quality and political factors to the success of bids made to the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) programme in England between 1994 and 1997. 1196 bid documents were collected from archive and other sources. Each was subjected to content analysis to measure numerous aspects of bid quality, after suitable checks of the coding frame and inter-coder reliability. Each bid was given a score on a set of need variables ultimately derived from Census data. Finally each bid was given a score on a set of political variables, reflecting how important the area the bid came from was electorally, and the ability of local MPs to lobby on behalf of the bid. Tobit regression models were built to explain variation in this, depending on need, bid-quality and political factors.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4447-1
title: Cities and Firms Global Matrix, 2000

description: The basic purpose of the research was to describe the world city network through the location policies of global service firms. The office locations (and their importance) were collected for 100 business service firms (18 accountancy, 15 advertising, 23 banking/finance, 16 law, 11 insurance, 17 management consultancy). From the resulting data matrix, various data reduction and connectivity matrices were derived to describe the basic configuration of the world city network.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4449-1
title: Quality of Life among People Aged 75 and over in Great Britain, 1994-1998

description: Data for this study were first collected to contribute to a large-scale randomised trial of assessment and management of people aged 75 years and over in Britain, funded by the MRC, DoH and Scottish Office. Brief assessments were offered to all people of this age registered with 106 general practices within the 'General Practice Research Framework'. In half the practices all patients were then offered a detailed assessment (the 'universal arm' of the study). In the remaining practices, only patients whose answers on the brief assessment indicated particular need for a detailed assessment (the 'targeted arm') were offered one. The purposes of the trial were: &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to compare universal and targeted assessment with respect to mortality, institutionalisation, hospital admissions and quality of life&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to compare different methods of undertaking the brief assessment for response, completeness and cost&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to compare management by the primary care team and by a geriatric evaluation management team with respect to these outcomes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;People in 23 of the practices were approached for quality of life information at baseline, then resurveyed 18 and 36 months later. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The Economic and Research Council (ESRC) subsequently funded analyses of the data collected for the project 'Inequalities in Quality of Life among People Aged 75 Years and Over in the Community', which was part of the 'Growing Older' research programme. This project used baseline data from the trial only, and its purpose was to investigate differences in selected dimensions of quality of life of elderly people by their socio-economic circumstances in late and mid-life, and to identify features that account for socio-economic variations. The specific objectives of the ESRC project were to:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;investigate differentials in quality of life by socio-economic factors, gender and age among people aged 75 and over living in the community&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;identify personal factors which contribute to differentials in quality of life&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;investigate the interaction of personal and area measures of deprivation on quality of life&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;examine whether social class during mid-life is associated with quality of life in old age&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;investigate whether socio-economic circumstances experienced in old age modify any observed association with mid-life measures&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;For the second edition (August 2006), the variable 'Fall', covering falls the respondent had during the six months prior to the survey, was added to the dataset.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;