cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5172-1
title: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA); Wave 1, 2002-2003: Teaching Dataset

description: The ELSA teaching data file contains information obtained from individual interviews and self-completion questionnaires from all 12,100 ELSA participants. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The file contains less than a tenth of the number of variables available on the main ELSA file and is designed for use as a teaching aid and also as a sampler for new and potential users of the main data.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Variable names are the same as those on the original ELSA dataset, held under SN 5050.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5173-1
title: Survey of How Parents Balance Work, Family and Home, 2000
title: Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Survey of How Parents Balance Work, Family and Home, 2000

description: This survey aimed to provide a statistically representative picture of working parents' views and preferences with respect to leave arrangements to facilitate support for their children. Over 1,000 parents in employment, working eight hours or more per week, were surveyed across Great Britain during autumn 2000. The survey was timed in order to inform the Government's 'Work and Parents: Competitiveness and Choice' Green Paper, published in December 2000.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey examined the following issues:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;parents' take-up of the statutory leave entitlements introduced under the Employment Relations Act 1999, and employers' 'top-up' provisions (covering maternity/paternity leave, emergency time off to care for dependants, and parental leave;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;parents' reasons for non-take-up of existing provisions;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;parents' preferences with respect to employers' provisions and views on the practicability of employers extending existing provisions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further information about the study methodology may be found in the documentation.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5175-1
title: Young Life and Times Survey, 2004
title: Young Life and Times Survey, 1998-
title: YLT

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Young Life and Times Survey&lt;/em&gt; (YLT) originally began as a companion survey to the &lt;a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040"&gt;Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey&lt;/a&gt; (NILT) series. It surveyed young people aged 12-17 living in the households of adults interviewed for NILT, and YLT ran alongside it from 1998-2000. Following an evaluation in 2001, the YLT series recommenced in 2003 (see SN 4826) using a completely different methodology and independent of the adult NILT. This new YLT survey uses Child Benefit records as a sampling frame.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The aims of the YLT series are to:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;facilitate academic social policy analysis; provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;give a voice to young people.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An open access time-series teaching dataset has been created from the 2003-2012 YLTs - see SN 7548.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040#!/access-data"&gt;Kids’ Life and Times&lt;/a&gt; (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the YLT, including publications, may be found on the Access Research Knowledge (ARK) &lt;a title="Young Life and Times Survey" href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/ylt/index.html"&gt;YLT&lt;/a&gt; webpages.&lt;/p&gt; All too often the opinions of young people are ignored when decisions are made about many of the issues involving them. Thus, the aim of the &lt;i&gt;Young Life and Times Survey&lt;/i&gt; is to record the views of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland, with a focus on community relations issues such as politics, sectarianism and education. By inviting respondents to suggest topics for the following year's survey, we make sure that the topics covered are relevant to the lives of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland today.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5179-1
title: Lord of the Rings International Audience Research Project: World Questionnaire Dataset, 2003-2004

description: This is a mixed methods study, comprising both qualitative and quantitative material. The aim of this project was to use the opportunity afforded by the release of the final part of the film trilogy of &lt;i&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/i&gt; to gather materials allowing an exploration of&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;the role of fantasy, especially film fantasy, in the lives of different kinds of audience&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the understanding they have of the 'location' (real or imaginary) of the author J.R.R. Tolkien's world, and its relation to their lived world&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the role played in their responses by perceptions of the story's original 'Englishness', its New Zealand landscapes, and its Hollywood financing and marketing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the part played by all kinds of prefigurative processes in shaping responses in advance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Within these broad aims, the objectives were to gather, over a fifteen month period, three large bodies of materials: three months of marketing, publicity, merchandising, and media coverage of the film prior to its release; responses from across the world to a questionnaire, available online with added paper-completed ones; and a set of follow-up interviews with individuals chosen for their exemplification of emergent patterns. This body of materials and data was to be organised in a way which permits both quantitative and qualitative exploration. The only materials currently deposited at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) are the questionnaire responses, which are held in a Microsoft 'Access 2000' database.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further information about the study may be found at the &lt;a href="http://www.lordoftheringsresearch.net/" title="Lord of the Rings Research Project"&gt;Lord of the Rings Research Project&lt;/a&gt; web site.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5180-1
title: Social Implications of One-Stop First Trimester Prenatal Screening, 2002-2003

description: In 2003, the offer of screening for foetal abnormality and particularly Down’s syndrome became a routine part of antenatal care in the UK for the first time. The 2003 NICE antenatal care guidelines state that 'all pregnant women should be offered screening for Down’s syndrome with a policy that provides a minimum detection rate of 75% with a false-positive rate no greater than 3% by 2007', indicating a move to first trimester screening technologies which achieve this greater level of accuracy. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Thus the findings of this study of the &lt;i&gt;only NHS site&lt;/i&gt; in England offering combined first trimester screening in a one-stop clinic setting are of particular relevance at this time and has provided the opportunity to look at the implications of an IHT (Innovative Health Technology) prior to wide-scale implementation in the UK. The study findings raise questions about the implications for non-directiveness and informed decision-making of the resulting routinisation of screening, and the shift from an ‘opt-in’ to an ‘opt-out’ service.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The implications of the introduction of a routine offer of screening for Down’s syndrome in the first trimester of pregnancy raises new issues for women and their partners, for the organisation and management of screening and for society. The development of prenatal screening technologies is a contested and politically charged arena with ethical and public policy considerations.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; In the light of the above concerns, the study aimed to explore: &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;the impact of new screening technologies on the social management of pregnancy, service delivery and professional roles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;participants’ broader responses to the new reproductive technologies, and views about routinisation of screening&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;perceptions of self, the foetus, and the management of reproductive risk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The qualitative aspect of this study has not been deposited along with the quantitative data, as the staff interviewed could be identified as the NHS unit was the only place in the country which conducted this type of work at the time of the study.&lt;/i&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5191-1
title: Growth of British Industrial Estates, 1900-1939

description: During the last two decades research on industrial districts, flexible specialisation, and high-tech regions has highlighted the importance of the local business environment to successful industrial development. Nineteenth century Britain developed a series of specialised industrial districts, providing pools of skilled labour, highly developed ancillary trades and services, networks of cooperative subcontracting relationships, and (in some cases) rented factory accommodation including power and utilities. However, the 'new' industries of the 'second industrial revolution', tended to locate outside such districts, in new 'green field' industrial areas. These often involved a new, more formally constituted, form of industrial agglomeration - the industrial or 'trading' estate. Closely associated with the rise of electric power and the internal combustion engine, and highly concentrated in the South East, industrial estates rapidly expanded to accommodate plants employing around 285,000 people by 1939, including some of Britain's best known companies such as Ford, HMV, Hoover, Lever Brothers, Mars, and Metropolitan Vickers. Despite considerable contemporary interest in their development, there has been little academic analysis of the general growth of pre-1939 industrial estates. This may be due, at least in part, to the paucity of quantitative and other evidence regarding their early development.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The main aims and objectives of the research project from which this dataset arose were:&lt;br&gt; (1) To asses the contribution of industrial estates to the growth and location of new manufacturing enterprises in interwar Britain;&lt;br&gt; (2) To examine the ways in which location of interwar industrial estates boosted firm growth;&lt;br&gt; (3) To explore the contribution of industrial estates to fostering locational externalities for the firms which located on them;&lt;br&gt; (4) To examine the regional impact of industrial estate development.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5192-1
title: National Data on New Interwar Manufacturing Plants and Extensions, 1919-1938

description: The main aims and objectives of the research project from which this dataset arose were:&lt;br&gt; (1) To examine patterns of plant location throughout Britain over the period 1932-38;&lt;br&gt; (2) To examine patterns of plant location in the Greater London region over the interwar period;&lt;br&gt; (3) To explore the extent and nature of local clustering of new manufacturing plants in interwar Britain;&lt;br&gt; (4) To explore the nature of locational externalities in major clusters of new manufacturing plants in interwar Britain;&lt;br&gt; (5) To assess the contribution of new manufacturing plant location to regional change in Britain over the interwar period.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5193-1
title: Scottish Emigration Database (Images), 1923

description: Since the 1980s scholarly research into emigration from the British Isles has led to the publication of a substantial body of monographs, articles and collections of essays, which have addressed the subject from a variety of thematic, chronological, regional and international perspectives. The Scottish Emigration Database is the product of an Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) funded project based at the University of Aberdeen’s AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies from January 2003 to March 2005. The Data Compilation and Analysis Project: Diaspora Studies was one of seven projects funded through the Centre’s Diaspora Programme. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The research for the project had a two-year timeframe. The first eighteen months were spent in digitising the source documents and compiling the relational database, with the final six months being devoted to analysis. In view of the huge volume of archival material, it was decided to select records at ten-year intervals, rather than attempt comprehensive coverage. These snapshots were to include the first year that full records become available (1890), the upsurge in external migration just before the First World War (1910), the resurgence of the movement after the war (1920), the nadir of the depression (1930) and the period after World War II when air travel was beginning to take over from ocean passage (1960). It was subsequently decided to add 1923 to the sample, owing to its particular significance for Scottish emigration.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The physical process of digitisation took place at The National Archives in Kew (London). The source documents were passenger lists (sometimes referred to as passenger manifests) completed by the pursers of shipping companies that conveyed passengers to ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean between 1890 and 1960. Using a Finepix S602 camera, each page was photographed twice, generating over 6,000 digital images, which were subsequently stored on DVD. Only one picture of each of these manifests is available in this study.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5195-1
title: Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey, 2002
title: Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey, 2002-
title: SALSUS

description: The &lt;i&gt;Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey&lt;/i&gt; (SALSUS) is the primary source of data on substance using behaviour among young people in Scotland. SALSUS comprises a long running series of national surveys of young people's substance use. From 1982 to 2000 these surveys were carried out jointly in Scotland and England to provide national information on smoking behaviour (from 1982), drinking behaviour (from 1990) and drug use (from 1998). In 2002, Scotland introduced its own (SALSUS) survey which provides national policy makers with vital information to help develop and evaluate policies to reduce the prevalence of substance use in Scotland and to monitor progress towards achieving Scottish Government targets. Every four years the survey also provides information on substance use for local areas. These data are used to help inform local service planning, for example, to develop Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) strategic and delivery plans and to monitor progress towards achieving a number of the ADP core indicators. All SALSUS datasets are available via the UK Data Archive.&lt;br&gt;
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Further information about the series is available from the NHS National Services Scotland Information Services Division &lt;a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Public-Health/SALSUS" title="SALSUS" target="_blank"&gt;SALSUS&lt;/a&gt; webpage and from the Scottish Government &lt;a href="http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Research/by-topic/health-community-care/social-research/SALSUS" target="_blank"&gt;SALSUS webpages&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
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August 2013: Variables excls1-4, covering school exclusions in years 1-4 were removed from the 2002, 2004 and 2006 data at the request of the NHS National Services Scotland's Caldicott Guardian. The 2002 SALSUS survey was undertaken in parallel with the 2002 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey (HBSC). The broad approach taken to understanding health and health behaviours in relation to lifestyle and the social context developed by the HBSC international study (Wold, et al., 1993; Currie, et al., 1998; 2001) was utilised by SALSUS through the inclusion of selected questionnaire items from HBSC to contextualise adolescent substance use. Other sources were also used where appropriate. Questions used to estimate prevalence and patterns of smoking, drinking and drug use and the availability and sources of supply of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs were continued from previous surveys in the series.&lt;br&gt;
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Please note that this dataset does not include variables obtained from questions taken from the HBSC series of surveys or any derived variables created using these items. The annotated questionnaire included in the documentation indicates the variables concerned.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5199-1
title: Classroom Assistants in Primary Schools: Employment and Deployment, 1999-2001

description: This is a mixed methods study.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The study investigates the ways in which classroom assistants in primary schools are deployed in classrooms, and the terms and conditions under which they are employed. The number of classroom assistants in primary schools has grown considerably in recent years, but very little is known about their work. Despite this, government policy is paying increasing attention to their potential to contribute to raising standards of achievement. The study aimed to understand the range of practices which govern the employment of classroom assistants, and the range of ways in which they are deployed in classrooms. The study sought to understand the factors that determine employment practices and patterns of deployment, and the way in which these are interrelated. The study contributes to the growing debate on professional and para-professional roles in primary schools. The study uses a combination of large sample survey and small scale case study methodology. In the first phase, policy and practice in three LEAs were explored through semi-structured interviews with key informants among LEA staff and representatives of trade unions and professional associations. In the second phase, questionnaires were sent to a large sample of schools in these three LEAs for completion by the head teacher, a classroom assistant and a teacher. The returns from LEA 3 were very low and therefore not included in this phase. Finally, three schools in LEA 1 and two schools in LEA 2 were chosen for in-depth case studies, drawing data from non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews with school staff.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5201-1
title: Patterns and Prospects for Partnership at Work in the United Kingdom, 2001-2003

description: This project aimed to examine partnership at work as a social process in which the forms and outputs of partnership and non-partnership arrangements are shaped by the interplay of relations between management, trade unions and employees. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The aims of the research were to define the content of 'partnership at work' within the framework of the contemporary UK context; develop and typify alternative models of management-union relations within the terms of the partnership discourse; and determine the range of trade union and employee responses to partnership at the workplace level.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The research design adopted a triangulation methodology involving intensive workplace case studies, employee surveys, documentary analysis and sectoral analysis. This mixed methods data collection includes transcripts of 221 interviews conducted with employees and managers at various skill levels, at five organisations selected from the engineering, financial services, local government and insurance sectors, and quantitative data files containing the responses from questionnaires distributed to employees at the same organisations. Research was also conducted at a sixth organisation, based in the National Health Service, but the results are not included in this collection for secondary use.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5202-1
title: Health Education Population Survey, 2004
title: Health Education Population Survey, 1996 -
title: HEPS

description: NHS Health Scotland is the national agency for health education in Scotland, providing leadership for health promotion in Scotland. Its remit includes:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;educational action to strengthen individuals' knowledge, skills and capabilities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;building the capacities of systems which shape the social, environmental and economic conditions which create and sustain health&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;NHS Health Scotland is also committed to measuring the effectiveness of its activities and commissions research to provide reliable evaluation evidence and to inform the development of programmes. As part of this research programme, BMRB Social Research were commissioned to conduct the first &lt;i&gt;Health Education Population Survey&lt;/i&gt; (HEPS) every March and September from March 1996 until March 1999 (seven waves in total). The resulting data, covering all three years, are held at the UK Data Archive as a single study under SN 4949. The second and following HEPS surveys were then conducted every March and September until September 2005 (ten waves in total), with two waves comprising each yearly dataset (see SNs 4950-4952, 5202 and 5470). Fieldwork was then commissioned for a further four waves, with waves eleven and twelve (conducted January-April and August-December 2006) comprising the 2006 dataset, held under SN 5713. These were followed by waves thirteen and fourteen (conducted January-April and August-November 2007) and are held under SN 6023.&lt;br&gt;
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The main objectives of HEPS are as follows:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to monitor trends in health-related attitudes, knowledge, beliefs and behaviours, and to assess the impacts of specific activities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;contribute to planning and development of health promotion initiatives through the inclusion of more detailed modules on topical issues&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In the longer term, HEPS aims to develop a strategic view of how and where health promotion activity may be most effective. This can be achieved in the following ways:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;identifying levels of knowledge regarding the main causes of ill-health&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;identifying salient attitudes with respect to health and means of improving health&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;identifying levels of motivation with respect to behaviour change to improve health&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;developing an understanding of how such indicators may be expected to vary between different population groups&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;developing an understanding of individual patterns of health-related attitudes and behaviour and their relationship to the broader socio-cultural environment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;developing an understanding of specific areas of interest&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Further information and links to publications based on HEPS may be found by search on the &lt;a href="http://www.healthscotland.com/index.aspx" title="healthscotland.com"&gt;healthscotland.com&lt;/a&gt; web site.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5206-1
title: Employers' Survey on Support for Working Parents, 2000

description: The main aim of the study, undertaken by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was to provide a statistically representative picture of the steps employers take to meet the child parenting needs of their employees.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey collected information on:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;employers' awareness of the new statutory leave entitlements introduced under the Employment Relations Act 1999;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;employers' current leave provision for working parents;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;employers' provision of flexible working arrangements for employees who are parents;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;employers' perceptions of the impact of these arrangements.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey findings informed the DTI's 'Work and Parents: Competitive Choice Review', published in December 2000.&lt;br&gt;