cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3960-1
title: Great Britain Historical Database: Census Statistics : Collections, 1861
title: Great Britain Historical Database, 1841-1939

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical Database&lt;/i&gt; has been assembled as part of the ongoing &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical GIS Project&lt;/i&gt;. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on &lt;a href="https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gbhdb/" target="_blank" style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 82, 124); text-decoration-line: underline;"&gt;A Vision of Britain webpages&lt;/a&gt;, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical GIS Project&lt;/i&gt; has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at &lt;a href="http:\\census.ukdataservice.ac.uk" title="UK Data Service Census Support" target="_blank"&gt;census.ukdataservice.ac.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3962-1
title: Small Fortunes : National Survey of the Lifestyles and Living Standards of Children, 1995

description: The Small Fortunes Survey is the first ever nationally representative survey of the lifestyles and living standards of British children. Taking the child as the unit of analysis, its main aims were :&lt;br&gt; to establish household expenditure on children and to investigate variation by income, age and gender of child and by family size and status;&lt;br&gt; to estimate certain of the indirect costs imposed by child rearing;&lt;br&gt; to determine the nature and extent of extra household support for children;&lt;br&gt; to specify and compare, the minimum direct costs of children according to budget standard, consensual, self-assessment and behavioural definitions;&lt;br&gt; to examine the nature and degree of poverty in childhood according to those definitions given above;&lt;br&gt; to investigate the 'economics of parenting': the extent to which children's aspirations are met at the expense of the living standards of parents; parent/child interactions on finance; parents' economic aspirations for their children;&lt;br&gt; to explore childhood living standards from children's own perspectives, investigating their experience of money and its management; knowledge and understanding of the family's financial circumstances in the context of the immediate neighbourhood and wider society.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3967-1
title: Representation and Retrieval of Arithmetical Facts, 1996-1998

description: Developmental disorders of arithmetical ability are frequently seen in children of normal intelligence who have no known medical history of relevance. A recent study reports an incidence of 4%. Three forms of the disorder have previously been identified, relevant to the structure of the underlying cognitive system. One of these involves disproportionate difficulty in the acquisition of arithmetical facts and tables. This project addresses several questions emerging from cognitive psychology, regarding fact retrieval, which can be addressed by studying those with selective difficulties.&lt;br&gt; The specific aims and objectives of the study were :&lt;br&gt; to determine whether fact retrieval seems to be an automated system devoid of semantic activation;&lt;br&gt; to determine whether quality of fact retrieval is related to speed of counting and/or short term memory span;&lt;br&gt; to determine whether there is delayed speed of access to arithmetical facts in those with number fact disorders;&lt;br&gt; to determine whether spatial dyscalculia is evident among children with developmental disorders of arithmetic, including those with spatial problems in non-arithmetical systems;&lt;br&gt; to conduct an exploratory investigation of the developmental arithmetical disorder seen in William's Syndrome.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3968-1
title: National Study of Health and Growth, Phase I: 1972-1976 (Years 1-5)
title: National Study of Health and Growth, 1972-

description: Following changes in the provision of welfare, school milk and school meals in 1971, studies were set up to assess the possible effects of these changes upon the nutritional state of the population. The aim of the National Study of Health and Growth (NSHG) was to set up an anthropometric system of surveillance on selected growth, nutritional and health characteristics that could identify the effects of the changes in food policy. Height was chosen as the main indicator of nutritional status together with weight and triceps skinfold thickness. The primary aim of the study was to estimate trends in anthropometric measurements for children of the same age. Although changes in rate of growth at a given age may occur over time, the main question to be answered was whether there had been any overall shift in the position of the growth curve.&lt;br&gt;
 The aim of the first five-year study (subsequently referred to as phase I) was to set up the planned anthropometric system of surveillance. It was originally intended to determine the extent and nature of poor nutrition (both over and under nutrition), to identify selected regional, demographic and socio-economic factors associated with childrens' growth, and to investigate the relationships between weight, height and the consumption of milk and school meals.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3972-1
title: Quantitative Indicators Measuring Factors Contributing to Local Economic Development, 1991-1997

description: This research project aims to provide an in-depth study of the problems encountered in developing quantitative socio-economic indicators for urban and regional policy analysis in Britain. The project consisted of two stages. The data from the first stage of the study are held under SN:3973.&lt;br&gt; The aims of this part of the study, the second stage, are to address two main objectives, through :&lt;br&gt; 1. The compilation of a meta-database to assess the quality of information sources that are relevant to Local Economic Development (LED), which will provide useful guidelines for future public data compilation practice and will be of use to other researchers in the field.&lt;br&gt; 2. The compilation of an up-to-date database of indicators for LED for the analysis of the following :&lt;br&gt; what extent the existence of information gaps in public statistical sources affects indicator research on LED;&lt;br&gt; which particular dimension of LED is most affected;&lt;br&gt; what other non-public sources of information are available for the measurement of LED;&lt;br&gt; what are the best data handling techniques to explore the statistical properties of indicators and to carry out preliminary validation analysis of the assembled database;&lt;br&gt; in what ways could innovative data processing and analysis enhance the interpretation of indicators and maximise the intelligence yielded from the information available;&lt;br&gt; in what form should indicators be aggregated to gear to the needs of policy-makers;&lt;br&gt; what are the most appropriate weighting methods to create multivariate indexes;&lt;br&gt; in what ways do different weighting methods affect the outcome of the final analysis.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3973-1
title: Local Economic Development Survey : North West and Eastern Region, 1995-1996

description: This research project aims to provide an in-depth study of the problems encountered in developing quantitative socio-economic indicators for urban and regional policy analysis in Britain. The project consisted of two stages. The data from the second stage of the study are held at the Data Archive under SN:3972. The aims of this part of the study, the first stage, were to address four main objectives, and the survey data here cover issues with respect to them. The objectives were :&lt;br&gt; to carry out an extensive literature review of urban and regional development theory in order to provide a conceptual basis for indicator construction;&lt;br&gt; to improve the understanding of the policy context and the key factors affecting local economic development in Britain with reference to implications of the European Union;&lt;br&gt; to identify in what ways indicators could be used to aid policy-makers to formulate their 'made-to-measure' area specific development strategies;&lt;br&gt; to derive a policy-focused and theoretically relevant analytical framework of key factors of local economic development which will then be translated into a 'wish list' of indicators for subsequent research work.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3975-1
title: Modernity and Multi-Storey Living : Apartment Tenants in Canadian Cities, 1900-1939

description: The focus of the research has been to investigate the role of apartment housing in the social geography of two Canadian cities - Toronto and Winnipeg - in the period 1900-1939, in the context of debates about 'spaces of modernity' in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities. The project aimed to reconstruct just who, in practice, occupied apartment buildings in each city. Were apartment tenants in any way distinctive, with respect to gender, socio-economic status, household structure, or ethnicity, and in their residential mobility, and day-to-day journey-to-work? Were there differences among the apartment-house population, especially when categorised according to the type of building in which they lived? From the outset, a principle aim has been to provide a readily accessible computerised dataset for use by secondary analysts interested in twentieth-century urban society. For example it can be used for a social-historical analysis for heritage planners and architectural historians contemplating the listing or conservation of selected apartment buildings; and by comparing patterns of occupancy in dwellings adjacent to apartment blocks, it can be used to provide historical evidence of the social impact of apartments as non-conforming uses in areas of single-family housing. More broadly, the project aimed to explore the social construction of property relations, especially with respect to the role of &lt;i&gt;rental&lt;/i&gt; housing in an increasingly owner-occupied housing market, and apartment housing in a society where the single-family detached dwelling was generally regarded as the most desirable form of dwelling.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3976-1
title: Social Variations in Health in Early Old Age : Investigation of Precursors in a 60 Year Follow-up Study, 1997-2004

description: The original aims of this project in 1997 were:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to investigate the processes which generate variations in health in early old age, specifically cumulative differential exposure to health damaging physical environments and their interaction with health&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to identify the respective contributions of childhood circumstances, including health, of adult events and behaviours and of current circumstances to variations in health in early old age&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to collect detailed information on the lives of a random sample of a unique survey population, for use during analyses of the whole survey population. This dataset offers the rare opportunity to examine the development of health and disease across the whole life- course&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to use a research method which has been developed specifically for such purposes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to produce results which will increase understanding of, and aid the efficient allocation of resources to, an age group which experiences high morbidity and considerable need for medical care&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The 2000 project followed participants who were originally interviewed in 1997. The study sought to develop a new, theoretically informed measure of quality of life in early old age, examining whether and to what extent people experience a&lt;br&gt; ‘Third Age’ of independence and satisfaction during the post-retirement phase of life, and what factors may influence this experience.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The 2004 project followed participants who were interviewed in both 1997 and 2000. The aim of this study was to identify, in a small cohort, contextual and life course influences on change in quality of life and physiological status through early old age.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; For the second edition (June 2008), follow-up data for 2000 and 2004 were added to the original 1997 data. Additional documentation was also made available.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3977-1
title: DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families, 1991-1995
title: DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families, 1991-2001
title: PRILIF

description: The &lt;i&gt;DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families&lt;/i&gt; (PRILIF) studied low-income families with dependent children. The study was conducted by the Department of Social Security (DSS) (now the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)), and the Policy Studies Institute (PSI).&lt;br&gt;
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The PRILIF series began in 1991, when a nationally-representative survey of low-income families was undertaken to study the effects of Family Credit on labour market opportunities. The series finished in 2001, and comprised seven waves, deposited at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) in three parts:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families, 1991-1995&lt;/i&gt; (held under SN 3977)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families, 1996 and 1998&lt;/i&gt; (SN 4425)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families, 2001&lt;/i&gt; (SN 5406)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The PRILIF series examined five main policy issues:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;how lone parents could improve their incomes, combining paid work, benefits and maintenance payments&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the effectiveness of child support&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the failure of some families to claim their benefit entitlement&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the persistent dfficulties experienced by some families, especially the lowest paid couples, in maintaining themselves in paid jobs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the wider effects of the use of income-tested in-work benefits on incentives to work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The main focus of the research was on families on the margins of work and concerned the influence of different sources of income (benefits, maintenance and earnings) on their labour market participation and family welfare.&lt;br&gt;
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A similar survey series, the &lt;i&gt;Families and Children Study&lt;/i&gt; (held under SN 4427), is also conducted by the DWP. &lt;br&gt;
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More information on the PRILIF study, including details of publications, may be found on the &lt;a href="http://www.psi.org.uk/" title="Policy Studies Institute"&gt;PSI&lt;/a&gt; web site.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3978-1
title: Non Resident Fathers, 1996

description: The project aimed to investigate the circumstances of non resident fathers in Britain. This study, which consisted of a sample survey and two qualitative surveys of sub-samples, covered the socio-economic circumstances, age, employment, income, marital status, living arrangements and housing (only the sample survey is held at the Data Archive). The study explored respondents' physical, financial and affective relationships with their former partner and non resident children, and also their feelings about their rights and responsibilities as fathers and the opportunities and constraints surrounding their relationship. The study also sought to explain respondents' level of contact with their children and the odds of paying child support in relation to their circumstances and present relationships.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3980-1
title: Agricultural Census Parish Summaries, 1877 and 1931

description: Data for this study were generated as part of a research project that aimed to reconstruct the Agricultural Geography of South East England in 1877, 1931 and 1965. However, only data from 1877 and 1931 were processed and made available.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3982-1
title: General Household Survey, 1973 : Leisure Questions

description: These SPSS files for the GHS 1973 leisure questions were created during the course of a research project which sought to track changes in patterns of leisure activities across the last century in the United Kingdom. The General Household Survey served as one of many sources of data for the project.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3983-1
title: Effect of Values, Achievement Goals and Perceived Ability on Moral Attitudes in Sport, 1998

description: It is frequently claimed that sports participation per se has a beneficial effect on social and moral development. However, there is reason to believe that the display of desirable moral attitudes may be influenced by a combination of personal attributes that have not yet been investigated. These include the values which young people hold in sport, the nature of the achievement goals that they set for themselves, and their perceptions of their own ability. Recent research has indicated that young athletes may identify three types of important sets of values that guide their sports participation : socio-moral, competence and status. Furthermore, an extensive body of research has established that children adopt self-referenced or comparative criteria to evaluate their success and assess their physical ability.&lt;br&gt; This project investigated the combined influence of those variables on moral attitudes in a sporting context. It was accomplished by a survey of young athletes which assessed the impact of, first, their value systems, second, the nature of their achievement goals and, third, their perceptions of their physical ability, on their attitudes towards moral issues in sport. Specifically, it examined the propositions that (a) achievement goals act as mediators on the influence of values on positive and negative attitudes towards issues in fair play in adolescent athletes, and (b) that perceptions of ability act as a moderating variable in that process. The research built directly upon two previous studies carried out at the University of Brighton (these studies are not currently held at the Data Archive). The first, funded by the Sports Council, explored young athletes' value systems and moral attitudes. The second focused on interactive effect of achievement goals and perceived ability on sport persistence. The current project brought together these two related but hitherto independent research fields and contributed to the debate about the role of sport in promoting moral values and attitudes.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3984-1
title: Information and Democracy : Audit of Public Information in the Media, 1996-1998

description: This project was designed to assess the extent to which the media supply information and knowledge, which allow people to act effectively as citizens. To do so it aimed to demonstrate that it is possible continuously to monitor the provision of such information and analyse its character and contents.&lt;br&gt; The media play a central role in the provision of information, symbols, and values which people deploy in acting as citizens. This is most obvious, and most extensively researched, in the context of elections. However, it is a much more diffuse and pervasive phenomenon than this focus allows. The claims of media professionals and of media analysis have tended to come into conflict over this essential characterisation of the media. However, extensive and repetitive research has cast doubt on the capacity of the media to fulfil these ideals. Such research has typically analysed the portrayal of particular events, institutions, or groups, and contrasted this portrayal with some other, purportedly more adequate account of the same phenomena (Golding, 1990, 1994). The essence of the project is thus to provide the basic resource for assessing media output which can be compared with 'performance norms' derived from expectations about the capacity of the media to serve the public interest (McQuail, 1992).&lt;br&gt; The project's core activity was the routine audit of news. This entailed the quantitative analysis of major news outputs over two years, October 1996 to September 1998, from national daily and Sunday newspapers, morning radio and evening television news bulletins.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3985-1
title: Judging Clinical Protocols in the NHS, 1998

description: The aims of this project were :&lt;br&gt; to explore the usefulness of the typology of rule-related behaviours specified by Reason, Parker and Lawton (1998);&lt;br&gt; to collect information on the reaction of medical staff to the advent of proceduralisation as a way of managing risk in the health service;&lt;br&gt; to assess the differential impact of proceduralisation on a group specifically educated in the exercise of professional judgement (doctors), and a group with more highly prescribed working practices (nurses);&lt;br&gt; to assess the effects of proceduralisation in the health service on public perceptions of risk and responsibility;&lt;br&gt; to make a contribution to risk management policy in the health service.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3986-1
title: National Study of Health and Growth, Phase II : 1977-1981 (Years 6-10)
title: National Study of Health and Growth, 1972-

description: Following changes in the provision of welfare, school milk and school meals in 1971, studies were set up to assess the possible effects of these changes upon the nutritional state of the population. The aim of the National Study of Health and Growth (NSHG) was to set up an anthropometric system of surveillance on selected growth, nutritional and health characteristics that could identify the effects of the changes in food policy. Height was chosen as the main indicator of nutritional status together with weight and triceps skinfold thickness. The primary aim of the study was to estimate trends in anthropometric measurements for children of the same age. Although changes in rate of growth at a given age may occur over time, the main question to be answered was whether there had been any overall shift in the position of the growth curve.&lt;br&gt;
 The aim of the second phase of the study was to continue the collection of basic information for monitoring the nutritional status of primary school children in all previous areas, with the additional collection of selected information for associated studies from a suitable subset of other areas. Further details are given in Appendix 3 of the User Guide for this study (3986).
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-3987-1
title: Survey of Postgraduates Funded by the Research Councils, 1997

description: SCPR was commissioned by the Research Councils to carry out a survey of former postgraduates who were funded by the Research Councils and whose funding ended in the academic years 1987/8 and 1988/9. The aim of the survey was to supplement data, routinely collected by the Research Councils, on first employment destinations of students and to identify the benefits of postgraduate study to former students and the economy (in the widest sense) over the longer term.&lt;br&gt; The specific aims of the study were to collect information on the following :&lt;br&gt; the location of and mobility between subsequent employment sectors and occupations of research and advanced course students funded by the Research Councils; the length, level and remuneration of employment, with particular attention to the first substantive job and the current/most recent job;&lt;br&gt; the quality, motivation and course outcome of these research and advanced course students;&lt;br&gt; the extent to which knowledge and skills acquired during the course have aided career progression, and have been needed and used;&lt;br&gt; the effectiveness of the course in preparing the student for employment, and how it might have been improved.