cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5052-1
title: Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003
title: Welsh Election Studies (Wales Life and Times Studies), 2001-

description:   The Wales Life and Times Studies (WLTS) have grown out of a programme of work conducted by the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) in collaboration with the Institute of Welsh Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in response to the constitutional changes brought about by devolution.&lt;br&gt;
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In 1997 a referendum study was conducted in Wales and Scotland (held at the UK Data Archive under SN:3952), followed by election studies covering the first elections in 1999 to the Welsh National Assembly (held under SN:4180) and Scottish Parliament, both funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). When the ESRC announced its intention to carry out surveys in all parts of the UK in 2001 and 2003 under the Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme, the Welsh component became WLTS.&lt;br&gt;
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An earlier Welsh election study, covering the 1979 general election, is also held at the UK Data Archive under SN:1591, but is not part of the WLTS series.&lt;br&gt;
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The 2003 Wales Life and Times Study served as a Welsh Assembly Election Study for the 2003 Welsh National Assembly elections. There was no general election held in 2003, hence the name change of the survey compared with the previous wave held in 2001. CREST was responsible for designing compatible questions for the 2003 study that were also fielded in England on the British Social Attitudes Survey, in Scotland on the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, and in Northern Ireland on the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.&lt;br&gt;
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An additional grant from the Constitution Unit, University College, London, enabled the addition of a module of questions on proportional representation, which built on similar questions asked on the Welsh Assembly Election Study 1999 (SN:4180).&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5053-1
title: Public Attitudes Towards the European Parliament and Local Authority Elections, June 2004

description: This project comprised public opinion research, conducted by ICM Research on behalf of the Electoral Commission, to measure and explore public attitudes toward the European Parliament and Local Authority elections that were taking place across the UK on June 10th, 2004. It also explored attitudes toward the all-postal arrangements for voting.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5054-1
title: Screening and Scoping in Environmental Impact Assessment, 1999-2002

description: The aims and objectives of the research project were to:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;identify the characteristics and nature of the way in which 'significant environmental effects' are currently determined and articulated under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations, 1999 (EIA);&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;explore the use of 'fuzzy set' theory to understand the way in which significance is evaluated by a range of stakeholders at different EIA decision stages leading up to the submission of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for final project authorisation decision-making;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;theorise the evaluation of the significance of environmental effects and develop heuristic models of EIA information appraisal and decision-making in the stages leading up to the submission of EISs; and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;evaluate the extent to which fuzzy sets may be employed to develop improvements in procedures used to evaluate significant environmental effects in screening, scoping and impact prediction in EIA.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5055-1
title: International Banking Database, 1912 and 1938
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5056-1
title: Food Deserts in British Cities, 2000-2001

description: The aims of the project were:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to provide an evaluation of the nature of 'food deserts' in British cities as a contribution to the social exclusion and health inequalities debates and their policy implications;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to design and conduct, within one strategically chosen area of poor retail access in Leeds, a major 'before/after' (baseline and follow-up) study of the impact of the opening of a large new food store on a group of low-income households.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The study required a major and potentially extremely difficult exercise in social survey research, involving a two-wave food diary/household questionnaire survey, focused on the kind of deprived urban area known to pose enormous problems regarding response and attrition rates for social survey research. The survey design&lt;br&gt; consisted of two waves: &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;pre-intervention (June/July 2000), approximately five months 'before' the opening of a new supermarket food store in November 2000, and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;post-intervention (June/July 2001), seven/eight months 'after' the opening of the new store.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; Each wave consisted of:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;a seven-day food consumption diary/check list - the respondent completed this but interviewer placed and collected it;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;a wide-ranging, interviewer-administered household questionnaire. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The diary and questionnaire were completed, as in the National Food Survey, by the person primarily responsible for the domestic food arrangements of the household.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey fieldwork was contracted to and completed by Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS). The survey was designed by the Southampton research team with technical advice from TNS and specialists at the team's industrial partner (J. Sainsbury plc). Survey instruments and methods were piloted in February 2000, and subsequently modified and refined.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Targets of 1000 respondents in Wave 1 and 600 in Wave 2 were set, in an attempt to ensure sufficient statistical power for the assessment of dietary change across the survey waves. Intense efforts were made by the research team to minimize sample attrition between waves of survey and hence reduce attrition bias problems in the subsequent analysis; monetary incentives (in the form of non-food retail shopping vouchers) were structured to maximise recruitment in Wave 1 of the survey, and sustain retention of respondents into Wave 2.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.15468/dl.37abh3
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 3 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Ipomoea asarifolia",
 "Country is India",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 3 records from 2 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031161-250920141307145/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-5057-1
title: Critical Incidents and the Health-related Behaviour of Schoolchildren, 1997

description: This is a mixed methods collection.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The research focused on the role of critical incidents in the life of young people and the extent to which such critical incidents acted as crucial flashpoints in the generation of attitudes towards health-related behaviour. Specifically, the research investigated schoolchildren’s attitudes towards risk-taking and health. Consumption of alcohol and tobacco by young people was studied as a pertinent instance of health-related behaviour. Attention was focused on the 15-16 age range as a group who are of particular interest in terms of their stage of development in relation to the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The aims and objectives of the research were to:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;analyse young people’s perceptions of self and personal health in the context of two recent developments in sociological theory concerned with ‘self identities’ and with the meaning of risk in contemporary western society;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;investigate the role of ‘critical incidents’ in the formation of schoolchildren’s attitudes to health-related behaviour;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;provide a methodological development of the critical incident technique for social research based on group interviews with schoolchildren;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;engage with a variety of agencies concerned with young people and foster an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health-related behaviour;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;enhance the value of health education strategies through a contribution to the existing knowledge base on the willingness of young people to take risks with their health.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project used a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methodology, and the study therefore includes one quantitative data file comprising coded responses from the questionnaire, eleven transcripts of focus group interviews conducted with groups of 15-16 year olds who responded to the questionnaire, and eight transcripts of interviews, each conducted with two students together, at five of the schools that took part in the survey.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5058-1
title: DSS/PSI Study of Improving Work Opportunities, 1996-1999

description: The DSS/PSI Programme of Research into Improving Employment Opportunities was a study of the Earnings Top-Up (ETU) scheme for low-paid workers. The national surveys that made up the programme were carried out by the Social Security Research Team at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) and the work was funded by the Department of Social Security (now the Department for Work and Pensions).&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The ETU study series began in 1996 with a survey of low-paid workers and unemployed people, in order to identify take–up of the ETU scheme. This continued over three years in a series of follow-up studies. Some of these were longitudinal or 'cohort' studies, re-interviewing 1996 respondents. Others were repeat cross-section studies asking similar questions of new nationally representative samples (see 'Diagram A - ETU Evaluation Surveys in the User Guide for full details of the respective datasets and how they relate to each other).&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Surveys of employers were also conducted, in 1996 and 1997. Those employers who responded to both of these surveys were re-interviewed in 1999.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5060-1
title: Public Perceptions of Food and Farming, Northern England, 2001-2002

description: The study set out with two main research objectives. First, with a view to generating empirical information useful to both policy actions and academic debates on localised food systems, it sought to investigate consumers' priorities when choosing food, their perceptions of farming and food provisioning issues, and their level of interest in local foods. Second, with a view to addressing the theoretical propositions regarding the existence of concerned consumers, it sought to examine the extent to which there are links apparent between these priorities, perceptions and interest levels. The study was developed in two phases, qualitative and quantitative (only the quantitative data are currently held at the UK Data Archive). The qualitative phase was designed to reveal and explore consumers’ perceptions relating to food and farming, and to assess the existence of links between them. The quantitative phase was designed to extend the investigation across a wider population, and to test statistically the strength of the links between consumers’ priorities, perceptions and interests. The geographic area chosen for both parts of the study was the north of England, with data collection taking place from November 2001 to February 2002. The study was executed therefore not long after the height of the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the UK, in some of the geographic areas most severely affected by the episode. Although the sampling procedures of both parts of the study were designed to incorporate a wide spectrum of consumers in terms of age, gender and socio-economic class, a key criterion for examination was respondents' urban/rural residency. The proposal under scrutiny was that consumers living in rural areas - being in closer proximity to sources of food production - have higher awareness of wider food system issues than their urban counterparts, and also a higher propensity to buy local.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5061-1
title: Lancashire Careers Service Database, 1988-1992

description: The aim of the research was to test the predictions of the stock-flow matching model. The specific objectives were:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to construct a unique database to analyse the joint behaviour of employers and job seekers;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to determine the length of time it takes new entrants to the labour market to sample the existing stocks, and to examine the implications of temporal aggregation;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to estimate the matching probability for four sub-samples of job seekers and vacancies;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to estimate duration models for both unemployment and vacancy hazards to determine whether there is a discrete fall in the hazard after new agents have searched the existing stocks;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to aggregate the data on job seekers and vacancies to estimate hiring and contract functions;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to examine the implications of changes in the occupational preferences of job seekers for the stock-flow matching model;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to explore the policy implications of the project findings.&lt;/li&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5062-1
title: Returned Skilled Labour Migrants : from the United Kingdom to Slovakia, 2003

description: The specific objectives of the project were: &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to explore the scale, motivations, skills and lifetime mobility of different types of skilled labour mobility to the UK from Slovakia;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to evaluate the 'total' human capital acquired by individuals participating in different types of skilled labour mobility;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to evaluate the direct economic implications for sending and receiving countries of different types of skilled labour mobility: what are the direct gains/losses in terms of skills, the social costs of the development of skills, production and taxation;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to analyse longer term economic implications by exploring the employment, capital transfers, and future mobility plans of returnees;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to assess the economic use made of the broader human capital (language, cultural knowledge, etc.) acquired through working abroad.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Given the lack of reliable official data on Slovakian migration to the UK, it was not possible to obtain a representative sample of returnees. Instead, the emphasis of the research was on differences between the three groups of migrants, and their individual experiences. The findings of the project make a contribution to the deconstruction of human capital as a concept in migration studies, and to understanding the economic impacts of new forms of European mobility.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5063-1
title: Wills and Inventories of Single Women in Durham, 1611-1700

description: This dataset is derived from a project designed to consider the cultural, economic and social impact of single women’s participation in money-lending in seventeenth century England. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Previous investigations of surviving probate documents in Lincolnshire and Cheshire have revealed a high percentage of single women engaged in credit provision, and this project was designed to broaden the picture of single women’s money lending in other areas. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The main aims of data collection were to consider the definitions applied to the probate documents of never married women, the extent and nature of their money lending, and how it fitted into their daily lives.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The Lincolnshire material also indicated that single men were also active in the provision of credit. Although the extent of their involvement is harder to establish since most were identified by their occupation rather than marital status, the project was concerned to compare their role with that of their female counterparts.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further aspects of the project involved the examination of court records and primary printed material to establish the problems single women experienced as a result of their lending and how they were portrayed in the contemporary literature.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5064-1
title: Wills and Inventories of Single Men and Women in Norfolk, 1605-1687

description: This dataset is derived from a project designed to consider the cultural, economic and social impact of single women’s participation in money-lending in seventeenth century England. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Previous investigations of surviving probate documents in Lincolnshire and Cheshire have revealed a high percentage of single women engaged in credit provision, and this project was designed to broaden the picture of single women’s money lending in other areas. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The main aims of data collection were to consider the definitions applied to the probate documents of never married men and women, the extent and nature of their money lending, and how it fitted into their daily lives.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The Lincolnshire material also indicated that single men were also active in the provision of credit. Although the extent of their involvement is harder to establish since most were identified by their occupation rather than marital status, the project was concerned to compare their role with that of their female counterparts.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further aspects of the project involved the examination of court records and primary printed material to establish the problems single women experienced as a result of their lending and how they were portrayed in the contemporary literature.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.15468/dl.zhmr39
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 1711 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "DatasetKey" : [
 "is Inventario nacional de especies vegetales y animales de uso artesanal"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 1711 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031162-250920141307145/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-5073-1
title: Survey of Public Attitudes towards Conduct in Public Life, 2003-2004

description: In March 2003 the Committee on Standards in Public Life commissioned BMRB Social Research to conduct a national survey of public attitudes towards the standards of conduct of public office holders in Britain. The survey was part of a long term study to establish a benchmark of public opinions about standards of conduct in public life and followed on from a preliminary stage of exploratory qualitative research conducted by the National Centre for Social Research in 2002. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The aims of the survey were:&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to establish what the public sees as acceptable and unacceptable behaviour on the part of elected and appointed holders of public office and the extent to which the Seven Principles of Public Life reflect public priorities;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to assess how far the public believes that the behaviour of holders of public office is, for the most part, acceptable or unacceptable;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;li&gt;to assess how far the public believes that holders of public office are effectively held responsible and accountable for their conduct.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; BMRB interviewed a nationally representative random sample of 1,097 adults aged 18 or over in Britain between 5th November 2003 and 7th March 2004. Interviews were carried out in respondents’ homes using computer-assisted interviewing (CAPI). The response rate at in-scope addresses in the sample was 53.7 per cent. A report detailing the findings from the survey was published on 8th September 2004, and is included in the documentation for this study.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.15468/dl.ht7tf7
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 92 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Ipomoea asarifolia",
 "Country is United States of America",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 92 records from 4 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031163-250920141307145/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-5074-1
title: Mapping Scottish and Welsh Parliamentarians' Attitudes to European Integration, 2001

description: The principal aim of the research was to test and further refine the hypothesis that the divisions so apparent on Europe, especially &lt;i&gt;within&lt;/i&gt; British political parties, are most pronounced along fault lines defined by disagreements over the importance of either maintaining national sovereignty, or of embracing an increasing interdependence with our European partners. The researchers wanted to examine if such a hypothesis would hold for the newly created 'subnational' institutions in Scotland and Wales with nationalist parties putatively positively bubbling with enthusiasm for European integration. Indeed, the received wisdom is one of both nations having a greater enthusiasm for Europe than that found at Westminster. Thus, such an enquiry would contribute to knowledge and understanding of the ideological configuration of Welsh and Scottish Parliamentarians over the European issue and further add to existing empirical data and knowledge on attitudes of Westminster parliamentarians.&lt;br&gt;