cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4393-1
title: Learning and Training at Work, 2000
title: Learning and Training at Work, 1999-

description: The 'Learning and Training at Work' surveys, which commenced in 1999, are an annual series of employer surveys that investigate the provision of learning and training at work. The surveys also investigate awareness of, and involvement with, a number of existing and new training and development initiatives. Learning and training information had previously been collected, along with information on recruitment difficulties, skill shortages and skill gaps, in the annual 'Skill Needs in Britain' (SNIB) surveys, which were carried out between 1990 and 1998 (these surveys are not currently held at UKDA).&lt;br&gt;
The objectives of the 'Learning and Training at Work' survey series are to collect information about:&lt;br&gt;
key indicators of employers' commitment to training, such as the Investors in People award; &lt;br&gt;
the volume, type and pattern of off-the-job training provided;&lt;br&gt;
learning opportunities offered;&lt;br&gt;
awareness of, and involvement with, a number of initiatives relevant to training;&lt;br&gt;
the costs associated with the provision of training.&lt;br&gt;
The information collected will be used to inform policy decision making.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4394-1
title: English Church Attendance Survey, 1998

description: The aim of the study was to assess afresh the current number and frequency of people attending church of all denominations in England in 1998. A previous study had been undertaken in 1989 and it was felt important to see how trends had changed.&lt;br&gt; The 1989 study is held at the UK Data Archive under SN:2842, and two similar Scottish studies (1984 and 1994) are held under SNs 2554 and 4395.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4395-1
title: Scottish Church Attendance Census, 1994
title: Scottish Church Attendance Census, 1984-

description: The aim of the project was to assess afresh the current number and frequency of people attending church of all denomonations in Scotland in 1994. A previous study had been undertaken in 1984 (held at the UKDA under SN 2554), and it was felt important to see how trends had changed. In particular, the principal investigators wanted to know how attendance had developed especially with regard to the age of those going to church. The survey also asked questions about the Bible version used in the church and whether churches had Bible study meetings.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4399-1
title: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance, 1997-1998

description: The main aims of the project were to:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;examine the nature of corporate governance innovations that have occurred in UK companies since the publication of the Cadbury and Greenbury reports &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;test the company performance consequences of adopting particular governance systems, reward structures and incentive mechanisms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;examine in detail the reward systems of senior managers and test the link between compensation and performance using competing theories of executive pay (e.g. tournament theory).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4400-1
title: Middle Classes and the Future of London, 1998-2000

description: The broad aim of the research is to investigate the social and economic consequences of the middle class settlement of inner London in recent decades in order to assess whether there are variations between different areas. A subsidiary aim will be to investigate the relationships between the middle class and other social groups in these neighbourhoods and whether, if these differ, the quality of these relationships can be related to the area and the social composition of the groups involved. Have the middle class exacerbated social exclusion in the city as some claim (Smith 1996)? At the heart of the research proposal is the assumption is that it is no longer possible to identify a single middle class and that different groups will have different social, economic, political and cultural interests and, for this reason, will have different relationships to their localities and populations.&lt;br&gt; More specific objectives are:&lt;br&gt; to identify what are the dominant patterns of middle-class settlement in inner London and how these are differentiated - by occupational characteristics, by social background, or by age-cohort;&lt;br&gt; to identify the consequences of middle class settlement particularly in terms of networks, patterns of sociation, the relations between work and non work associations;&lt;br&gt; to investigate to what extent these social and possibly economic interactions involve other social groups and if so how these variations might be explained; &lt;br&gt; to identify if possible what one area might learn from another - in other words, are there policy recommendations that can be made to improve the attractiveness of some areas and minimize their negativities?
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4402-1
title: Social Welfare Voluntary Organisations in the Glasgow City Local Authority Area, 2000

description: The main aim of the research is to understand the development and distribution of social welfare voluntary activity by investigating the inter-relations between voluntary organizations, local communities and tiers of the state. The study focussed on Glasgow, a city which faces huge challenges in delivering social welfare. The study aimed to address the following questions:&lt;br&gt; what types of voluntary organizations are active in Glasgow, where and why;&lt;br&gt; what forms of relationships develop between voluntary organizations and the places where they are active;&lt;br&gt; what impact does the political context have on the development of voluntary organizations.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4403-1
title: Teaching Adults With Learning Disabilities To Use Virtual Environments : Observational Data, 2000

description: Interactive software in general, and virtual environments in particular, have potential as an aid to learning for both children and adults with learning disabilities. More needs to be known, however, about the best way to exploit it. The study was designed to identify what strategies human tutors use when working with adults who were learning to use virtual environments and to investigate their effectiveness by examining changes over time in both tutor and learner. The intention of the study was to produce a repertoire of effective tutor strategies that could be evaluated at a later stage in a systematic intervention study. Three steps were taken to achieve this:&lt;br&gt; reliable categories of tutor and learner behaviour were developed;&lt;br&gt; these categories were examined over time to see whether they differed in frequency of occurrence, in order to validate their differentiation;&lt;br&gt; an attempt over time was made to determine effectiveness by relating occurrence of different tutor behaviours to learners' goal achievement.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4404-1
title: Drug Pathways into Young Adulthood : Follow-up of a Longitudinal Sample of Drugwise 'Post Adolescents', 1999-2000

description: The North West Longitudinal Study began in 1991 whereby over seven hundred 'ordinary' adolescents were tracked annually from when they were aged 14 years (Year 1, 1991) to 18 years (Year 5). This follow-up study has recaptured 465 of the cohort at age 22. &lt;br&gt; The aims and objectives of the study were to:&lt;br&gt; furthe develop a longitudinal analysis of the drug careers and drugs pathways of 1990s British youth and young adults;&lt;br&gt; assess the impact of entry into young adulthood/'post adolescence' on the drug careers of an established sample of young people;&lt;br&gt; to monitor the scale and nature of personal, social, 'crime' and health problems associated with extended 'recreational' drugs careers;&lt;br&gt; further explore to what extent and how drug abstainers maintain and protect their status during young adulthood; further identify and describe the public policy implications of 'recreational' drugs careers.&lt;br&gt; Users should note that UKDA hold only this follow-up study and not the original North West Longitudinal Study.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4405-1
title: Labour Disputes in the UK, 2000
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-4406-1
title: Membership Survey of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, 2000-2001

description: The &lt;i&gt;Third Tradition(s)&lt;/i&gt; project examined the role of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, posing the following main research questions:&lt;br&gt; To what extent does Alliance offer a distinctive third political tradition, separate from unionism and nationalism?&lt;br&gt; What is the religious balance of the party and what effect does a religious imbalance have upon party policy and the self-ascribed identity of members?&lt;br&gt; What reservations do party members have in respect of the Good Friday Agreement and which aspects particularly enthuse party members?&lt;br&gt; Would Alliance party members be prepared to support the tactical redesignation of the party as unionist to support the Good Friday Agreement?&lt;br&gt; What role as a centre pillar do party members envisage Alliance performing in a post-Good Friday Agreement dispensation?&lt;br&gt; An earlier study by the same Principal Investigator, which surveyed the Social and Liberal Democratic Party (SDLP) of Northern Ireland, is held at UKDA under SN:4113.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4409-1
title: Expatriate Staffing in International Financial Centres : London, 1998

description: The aims of the study were:&lt;br&gt; to advance our theoretical understanding of why financial transnational corporations (TNCs) still require British professional and managerial expatriates to be posted to global financial centres (GFCs) in these times of rapid improvements in information technology (IT), and how such labour accumulates knowledge through becoming embedded in an expatriate lifestyle, undertaken in particular networks and spaces;&lt;br&gt; to collect a new and unique set of quantitative and qualitative data on the existence of British expatriate transnational communities from both TNCs and expatriate themselves, in London, Singapore and New York City;&lt;br&gt; to contribute to the development of methodology in migration studies and the new economic geography/sociology by adopting a multi-method approach.&lt;br&gt; In order to address these research aims, the project had seven major inter-linking objectives:&lt;br&gt; to create a new synthesis of migration studies and the new economic geography/sociology by dovetailing their theoretical writings;&lt;br&gt; to investigate the magnitude of British expatriates who move between London and other GFCs, through the use of a postal questionnaire survey;&lt;br&gt; to explore the strategies of London based financial TNCs in their use of expatriation by interviewing Directors of Human Resources (DHRs) in advanced producer services;&lt;br&gt; to use focus group research to provide a study of London-based repatriated labour;&lt;br&gt; to collect unique data through a combination of semi-structured interview surveys and time-space diaries, thus providing an original insight into the networks of British expatriates in Singapore and New York City.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.6vwn6v
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 571 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Gypsophila rufipectus",
 "Country is one of (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Singapore)",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 571 records from 4 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031144-250920141307145/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-4410-1
title: Urban Regeneration, Mental Health and Quality of Life in Wythenshawe, South Manchester, 1998-2001

description: The aim of this study was to achieve a better understanding of:&lt;br&gt; the role played by urban regeneration in altering the degree and distribution of socio-economic variations in mental health;&lt;br&gt; the impact of socio-economic changes on people with differential vulnerability to the development of common mental illness;&lt;br&gt; the measurement of subjective well-being in urban settings and what factors contribute to its improvement or maintenance during socio-economic change.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4411-1
title: Russian Bankers and Officials, 2000

description: The objective of this study was to discover the political and social background of the Russian banking elite, and their attitude to economic and political issues.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4412-1
title: Children's Quality of Life: United Kingdom Normative Data for the Generic Children's Quality of Life Measure (GCQ), 1997-1998

description: This research project was carried out to develop a dataset to produce normative values for healthy children using the Generic Children's Quality of Life (GCQ) measure and to assess the reliability and validity of the measure. The study aimed to assess the quality of life of a population sample of schoolchildren. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The GCQ measure has been developed to allow comparison between chronically ill children and the general child population. The measure assesses how the child views his or her life, and how they would like their life to be. Quality of life is measured as the discrepancy between the two viewpoints. This large community-based survey aimed to establish GCQ norm values for children aged 6-14 years. The respondents to the survey were pupils at a sample of schools stratified by geographical location and social need into four categories: rural affluent; rural low affluence; urban affluent and urban low affluence.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; For the second edition of the study (September 2007), some new information was added to the user guide.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4414-1
title: New Deal for Young People : National Survey of Participants, Stage 1, 1999

description: This study is the first stage of a two-stage quantitative survey looking at the impact of the &lt;i&gt;New Deal for Young People&lt;/i&gt; (NDYP) on participants (the other part of the survey is not yet held at UKDA).&lt;br&gt;
The two overarching objectives of the research were to look at how the various components of the programme helped young unemployed people into jobs and increased their long term employability. The first part of the research aimed to:&lt;br&gt;
collect attitudinal data on work motivation, orientation and aspiration, as well as jobsearch behaviour;&lt;br&gt;
collect information on earnings for those in employment;&lt;br&gt;
establish benchmark measures for employability to be used in the more detailed Stage 2 research.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4415-1
title: Employment Choices for Mothers of Pre-School Children, 1998-2000

description: This project examined the psychological processes and demographic variables which predict the decisions women make about returning to work after they have their first child. A cohort survey of 413 women was carried out - questionnaire surveys were conducted in pregnancy and at six and 12 months post-partum. In addition, a sub-sample of 52 women took part in semi-structured interviews (not included in this dataset), where work plans, attitudes and beliefs were explored. The aims of this research were threefold: to examine the psychological processes and demographi variables behind women's decisions about work and childcare after they have their first child; to explore changes in attitudes, beliefs, norms and identity as a function of becoming a mother and beginning a new pattern of work and/or childcare; and to look at the impact of employment/childcare choices on family relationships and psychological well-being.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.7g73pa
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 174 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "BasisOfRecord is Specimen",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "TaxonKey is Rhipsalis russellii"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 174 records from 45 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031146-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.uam4ra
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 170 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Anacardium occidentale",
 "Country is Seychelles",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 170 records from 7 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031145-250920141307145/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dd.atmncn
title: Dataset generated from Esri tool

description: Derived dataset generated by Esri geoprocessing tool using GBIF API
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4419-1
title: London Mayor and Assembly Re-run, 2000

description: The aim of the research is to analyse voters' political preferences in London. The objectives of the research are as follows.&lt;br&gt; 1. To monitor the performance of two new electoral systems in London, the Supplementary Vote and the Additional Member System.&lt;br&gt; 2. To analyse the extent to which voters 'split tickets' across political parties, both in the party and candidate vote for the assembly and in the first and second preference vote for the London Mayor.&lt;br&gt; 3. To analyse the likely effects of voter behaviour on London's party system, and to explore the wider implications for regional patterns of party support in England.&lt;br&gt; 4. To analyse differences in voters' behaviour between inner and outer London.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; A survey conducted by University College London on the first run of the 2000 London Mayoral election is held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 4443. 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-4423-1
title: Burial Registers for Kingston upon Thames Parishes, 1850-1901 and Bonner Hill Cemetery, 1855-1911

description: These data have been generated as part of the work being undertaken by the Kingston Local History Project. The aim of this project is to create a comprehensive database covering the people who lived, worked and died in Kingston upon Thames between 1850 and 1911. The core of the database is the census enumerators' returns for each census year between 1851 and 1891, supplemented by vital registration sources such as parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) and the local authority cemetery records. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Analysis of the data is providing a wealth of information on such questions as occupational structures; class profiles; household structures; demographic trends etc., and indicating how these changed over time. For example, this burial database has provided a great deal of material on mortality in Kingston between 1850 and 1911, including the age profile of mortality (in particular highlighting the high and increasing incidence of infant mortality), and the seasonality of mortality. By linking these data to other sources such as the census enumerators' books, maps and Medical Officer of Health reports, we can examine the influence of such factors as location, housing conditions, father's occupation (in the case of infants) etc. on mortality.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4424-1
title: Baltic Iron and the Organisation of the British Iron Market in the Eighteenth Century

description: The project was concerned with the role of international commerce and mercantile networks in the early phases of British industrialisation. Specifically, it was concerned with the operation of the market for malleable bar iron. Between 1650 and 1800 domestic ironmasters were unable to meet the growing demand for bar iron. The shortfall was made good by imports from the Baltic, first from Sweden, then from Russia. The objective of the project was to uncover the links in the global commodity chain that stretched from the mining district of central Sweden to Britain and beyond. By doing so, the destination of bar iron imports can be plotted, allowing regional markets and specialised production zones to be detected, illuminating the operation of one of the most important industrial commodity markets of the era. As a further step, the role of mercantile networks in Britain in developing new patterns of metalware manufacture, orientated upon export markets in the Atlantic world, is brought to light.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4425-1
title: DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Low-Income Families, 1996 and 1998
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;
&lt;br&gt;
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;
&lt;br&gt;
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;
&lt;br&gt;
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;
&lt;br&gt;
 The findings from the 1991 survey tended to strengthen a case for policies aimed to 'make work pay' even though for some families, particularly the lowest-paid couples, cash incentives and gains in living standards were small. Respondents from the original 1991 survey were re-contacted and re-interviewed in 1996 and 1998.