cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4050-1
title: Ghana RPED Data, Waves 1-3, 1991-1993

description: The objective of the project was to survey firms in Ghana's manufacturing sector covering the period 1991-1993. This study comprises a comprehensive panel data set on a sample of firms within that sector. These data were collected over the period 1992 to 1994 in a series of three annual surveys, as part of the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) organised by the World Bank.&lt;br&gt; The original sample of 200 firms was drawn on a random basis from firms contained in the 1987 &lt;i&gt;Census of Manufacturing Activities&lt;/i&gt;. The firms constituted a panel which was intended to be broadly representative of the size distribution of firms across the major sectors of Ghana's manufacturing industry. These sectors include food processing, textiles and garments, wood products and furniture, metal products and machinery. It has been possible to obtain data over the three waves for the majority of the original sample of firms, but, where necessary, firms that have dropped out of the survey (for a variety of reasons) have been replaced in the sample by similar firms.&lt;br&gt; The data collected over the first three waves of the survey, which are contained in this dataset, give information on sampled firms and a sub-sample of their workers relating to the years 1991, 1992 and 1993. A fourth wave of the survey conducted in late 1996 gathered similar data relating to 1994 and 1995 - these data are currently being prepared for dissemination by the Principal Investigators, and are not contained in this dataset. A fifth wave of the survey is planned to obtain comparable firm and worker level data for the years 1996 and 1997. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The CSAE have a website which includes further information on the Ghana RPED data, at:&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/CSAEadmin/datasets/main.html&lt;br&gt; http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/CSAEadmin/datasets/main.html&lt;/a&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4053-1
title: Individual and Contextual Influences on the Market Behaviour of Finance Professionals, 1997-1999

description: The aim of this study is to contribute to decision theory and to provide information valuable to management in finance. This research seeks to clarify and measure the decision styles of traders, whose work demands quick and balanced judgement under conditions of risk and uncertainty. A valid taxonomy of individuals' psychological preferences and decision style and a systematic analysis of which behaviours are likely to occur under what conditions for which individual could aid selection, placement and management systems.&lt;br&gt; The aim of the project was to develop a new measure based on previous research which indicated that decision style is likely to compromise a number of psychological constructs. The measure would focus on risk dispositions, cognitive orientations and emotional involvement. Two further measures would collect data concerning the organisational-level processes of recruitment and placement of new employees and measure individual-level performance. Longitudinal performance data would also be gathered to examine change over time.&lt;br&gt; The sample comprised investment banks and fund management companies. Data would be gathered from firms with different roles in the industry to enable similarities and differences across firms to be examined. Feedback from the project would have academic and practical value, taking the form of academic papers and company-specific reports.&lt;br&gt; The dataset held at the Archive does not contain all the data collected during the project - some restricted-use personality test data are not included.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4054-1
title: General Household Survey Cross-Year Leisure Activities, 1973-1997

description: The General Household Survey Cross-Year Leisure Activities file permits cross-time study of changes in leisure activities in Great Britain gathered during General Household Surveys. The variables in these files have been recoded from the original studies to achieve consistent formats. The GHS included leisure questions in the following years: 1973, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990-91, 1993-94, 1996-97. This file also permits the observation of demographic changes in Great Britain over the same time period.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4055-1
title: Dissension in the House of Commons, 1992-1997

description: The main aims of this part of the research project were:&lt;br&gt; to generate a complete set of data of all incidents of intra-party dissension in the division lobbies of the House of Commons in the parliament of 1992;&lt;br&gt; to identify and research the reasons for dissension in the Common's division lobbies and the events leading up to that dissension;&lt;br&gt; to analyse the data in order to identify trends in parliamentary behaviour and to generate and test explanations of that behaviour;&lt;br&gt; to identify and assess the consequences of changes in parliamentary behaviour for Parliament, for public policy, for the party in government, and for the legitimacy of the political system.&lt;br&gt; Two datasets resulting from the same research project, one containing dissension votes in the parliaments of 1979-1992, and the other containing data on free votes in the parliaments between 1979 and 1997, are held at the Archive under SNs 3929 and 4056.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4056-1
title: Free Votes in the House of Commons, 1979-1997

description: The main aims of this research project were:&lt;br&gt; to generate a complete set of data of all incidents of intra-party dissension in the division lobbies of the House of Commons in the parliaments of 1979 to 1992 inclusively;&lt;br&gt; to identify and research the reasons for dissension in the Common's division lobbies and the events leading up to that dissension;&lt;br&gt; to analyse the data in order to identify trends in parliamentary behaviour and to generate and test explanations of that behaviour;&lt;br&gt; to identify and assess the consequences of changes in parliamentary behaviour for Parliament, for public policy, for the party in government, and for the legitimacy of the political system.&lt;br&gt; The data on free votes was a useful by-product of the above aims and objectives.&lt;br&gt; Two other datasets resulting from the same research project, containing dissension votes in the parliaments between 1979 and 1992, and the parliament of 1992-1997, are held at the Archive under SNs 3929 and 4055.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4057-1
title: Major Party Council Candidates in Scotland and Wales, 1999

description: The study of Scottish and Welsh council candidates was carried out in tandem with the principal investigators' study of candidates for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly (held at the Archive under SN:4058). Many commentators suggested that the establishment of the Parliament and Assembly would usher in a new style of politics, with a new type of politician. A postal survey of the attitudes, experience and individual characteristics of those standing in local authority elections allowed comparison and contrast of these politicians with candidates standing for the new national bodies.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4058-1
title: Major Party Candidates in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly Elections, 1999

description: The general aim of the research was to create a database of candidates for the Scottish Parliament/Welsh Assembly comprising details of their social and political characteristics, experience and attitudes. The specific objectives were, firstly, to analyse the parties' procedures for recruiting and selecting candidates under the new electoral system. Secondly, to describe the actual operation of candidate selection and the internal strains it caused in the parties. Thirdly, to describe the characteristics and attitudes of candidates, making comparisons across parties and between the two different types of candidate. Finally, to compare candidates for these new institutions with UK Parliament and local government candidates and with electors.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4067-1
title: Day Care Provision for Children under the Age of Five at the Local Authority Level in the UK : 1973-1995

description: This dataset formed one element of an assessment of how local authorities make decisions about day care policy in the UK, and in particular England. The project as a whole relied largely on reviews of day care policy documents and interviews with relevant policy-makers. &lt;br&gt; These data allow the tracking of the main trends in day care provision in the UK at the local authority level. The project covered the time frame from 1973, the point of the last major reconstruction of local authorities, to the spring of 1995 when the national government again re-shifted local authority boundaries.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.xb44w2
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 115 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "Country is Canada",
 "TaxonKey is Fraxinus profunda"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 115 records from 7 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031134-250920141307145/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-4072-1
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1997
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1983-
title: BSA

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research &lt;a title="British Social Attitudes" href="https://natcen.ac.uk/flagship-surveys"&gt;British Social Attitudes&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4073-1
title: Girls' and Boys' Body Image Concerns, 1997

description: A mixed methods collection. &lt;p&gt;The main aim of this project was to broaden and deepen understanding of 'normal' adolescent boys' and girls' body image concerns, in order to provide an appropriate basis for interventions aimed at promoting healthier diet and lifestyle. The project combined quantitative and qualitative methods. Data on nearly 5,000 adolescents, collected as part of a DH-funded survey on smoking were analysed to determine the effects of gender, age and pubescent status on body image concerns and related attitudes. This analysis was used to design a qualitative study, carried out in one of the schools that had participated in the earlier study. Adolescents in Year 8, 10 and 12 talked about their feelings concerning body parts, fatness, physical attractiveness, media and peer influences, and strategies for achieving the 'ideal body' in both focus group discussions and individual interviews. One adolescent from each focus group was interviewed individually, in order to allow a systematic comparison of these two qualitative methods.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4076-1
title: Exploring the Fourth Environment : Young People's Use of Places and Views on Their Local Environment, 1996-1999

description: The aims of the project were:&lt;br&gt; to examine how children and adolescents (9 to 16 years) 'see the world around them' and how they make use of place. Attention has focussed on the 'fourth environment', those public places beyond the home, school and playground;&lt;br&gt; to consider whether age, sex, ethnicity, family structure, social class and location (inner-urban, urban (suburban), rural) have a bearing upon children's and adolescents' environmental use, access, needs (social, recreational, sporting), aspirations, safety and behaviour and to evaluate the role of parental attitudes/fears towards shaping environmental opportunity in order to uncover the negotiated geography of place;&lt;br&gt; to contribute significantly to the development of appropriate (and novel) methods of studying children's and adolescents' local environmental values, preferences and needs (for example, extensive and intensive surveys, group interviews, in-depth discussion groups, environmental exchanges, environmental videos, environmental diaries, environmental forums);&lt;br&gt; to consider how children and adolescents could become part of the (local) environmental planning process, particularly through long-term structures which both empower young people and encourage an attitude of critical reflection. This part of the project involved 'local' inter-agency co-operation and action with regard both to the identification of 'local' environmental issues relevant to children and adolescents and to the enhancement of 'local' environmental strategies targeted at young people. In addition, the project looked critically and comparatively upon the experiences of countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Philippines and Brazil (known to the project team through direct experience and consultancies) all of which have put in place lasting organisations that facilitate young people's participation;&lt;br&gt; to contribute to the theoretical and conceptual debates on young people as 'outsiders' within society, and ii) 'active' environmental agents capable of participatory citizenship from an early age. Both debates raise issues of empowerment, equal opportunity and equity and are set in the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and 'local' Agenda 21. Also, to explore the tensions that arise through changing perceptions of 'public' and 'private' spaces and between the rival pulls of the rights to both freedom and protection. This part of the project was multi-disciplinary in perspective and drew upon cross-national experiences.&lt;br&gt; The Data Archive holds only the quantitative data from the project: the main (doorstep) questionnaire survey, the leisure centre survey, the parents' survey and the shopping centre survey. These surveys were all conducted in Northamptonshire.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4078-1
title: Economically Inactive and Unemployed Men, 1997-1998

description: The aim of the research is to investigate the nature and causes of the substantial increase in the number of men of working age in the UK who are no longer either employed or unemployed - i.e. 'economically inactive'. These include, among others, very large numbers who are now recorded as 'permanently sick' and 'early retired'. The research will assess the extent which this withdrawal from the labour market is related to individual and family circumstances and to local economic conditions. In particular, the research will investigate the extent to which inactivity 'disguises' unemployment, especially in the most disadvantaged labour markets.&lt;br&gt; The survey took place in three towns with contrasting local economic conditions (Barnsley, Chesterfield and Northampton) and four rural areas (South Shropshire, North Norfolk, North Yorkshire and West Cumbria).
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4079-1
title: Quality of Representation in Ukraine, 1998

description: The project aimed to evaluate the quality of electoral representation in Ukraine, by means of four probability surveys in two phases. A survey of candidates and the first wave of a panel survey of citizens were conducted immediately prior to the parliamentary elections of March 1998. Approximately six months later a second wave of the citizen survey was conducted, as well as a survey of the parliamentary deputies elected in March.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4085-1
title: Scottish Register of Employment, 1950-1993

description: The Scottish Executive compiled the &lt;i&gt;Scottish Register of Employment&lt;/i&gt; (SRE) in order to gather more information about Scottish industry. The data were collected by the then Scottish Office, with the aim of building up a database of Scottish manufacturing.&lt;br&gt; The depositor has stated that no written records remain of how the data were gathered, but apparently this was done by direct surveying of companies, analysis of press articles etc. The definition of a manufacturing unit is 'a single plant or site (i.e. not a single company) with greater than ten employees'.&lt;br&gt; The database was discontinued because the Office for National Statistics (ONS) had started producing a UK wide database which duplicated what the SRE attempted to do in Scotland - this was the Annual Census of Production (ACOP - more a survey, not a census), which commenced in 1983. ACOP is not currently held at the Data Archive.&lt;br&gt; The depositor of the SRE notes that it is does not appear to be possible to relate the SRE and ACOP to one another, probably because of differences in the definition of a 'manufacturing unit': unfortunately this tends to preclude extrapolation from the SRE to more recent times. However the SRE can be regarded as internally consistent, and so can be used to analyse time series from 1950 to 1993.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4086-1
title: Peasant Land Market in Southern England, 1260-1350

description: The main aims of this research project were: &lt;br&gt; 1) To collect information relating to the peasant land market on the estates of the bishopric of Winchester in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.&lt;br&gt; 2) To determine the number and variety of transactions in land on these estates and their fluctuations over time, in order to provide important information about medieval rural society.&lt;br&gt; 3) To resolve whether individual property rights in southern England were well developed in this period or whether they were circumscribed by seigneurial interference and custom.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4088-1
title: Under 16s and the National Lottery, 1999

description: The main aims of this research were to determine the levels of underage sales of National Lottery products, and the prevalence of 'problem gambling' (as determined by the DSM-IV-MR-J - see full reference under 'Main Topics' section below) by under-16-year-olds on National Lottery scratchcards. These findings were also compared with a similar study conducted in 1997*. The research also attempted to explore whether those under 16 understood the reasons for the age restriction on the National Lottery.&lt;br&gt; *The findings from the 1997 survey were reported in: Fisher, S.E. (1998) &lt;i&gt;Gambling and problem gambling among adolescents in England and Wales&lt;/i&gt;, prepared for the Office of the National Lottery, OFLOT (now The National Lottery Commission).
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4089-1
title: Continuous Household Survey, 1998-1999
title: Continuous Household Survey, 1983-
title: CHS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Continuous Household Survey&lt;/i&gt; (CHS) is one of the largest continuous surveys carried out in Northern Ireland. The survey is designed, conducted and analysed by the Central Survey Unit of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). It is based on a sample of the general population resident in private households and has been running since 1983. The Survey is designed to provide a regular source of information on a wide range of social and economic issues relevant to Northern Ireland. The CHS is an important source of information in Northern Ireland and is used by many Government departments and Agencies. Regular clients include the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Culture Arts and Leisure, Regional Developments, Environment, Education, Employment and Learning and NISRA. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the series, including methodology, may be found on the NISRA Central Survey Unit (CSU) &lt;a href="https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/central-survey-unit/continuous-household-survey" title="CHS"&gt;Continuous Household Survey&lt;/a&gt; web pages.&lt;/p&gt; For the second edition of the study in December 2001, income data (Record 11 of the original database) not supplied with the original deposit were added to the dataset. Information about the income variables can be found in the User Guide under 'Income and Benefits' in the 'Interviewer's Instructions - Individual Schedule' and 'Questionnaire - Individual Information' sections.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4090-1
title: Disability Follow-Up to the 1996/97 Family Resources Survey

description: The aim of the survey was to find out the size and characteristics of the disabled adult population of GB. The research is based on a follow-up survey of disabled respondents in &lt;i&gt;Family Resources Survey, 1996-1997&lt;/i&gt;, held under SN 3957 - part of a continuous survey of household characteristics, incomes and resources. Respondents who matched any one of a series of sift criteria based on age, benefit receipt or reported health problems were asked to take part in a further interview. This asked in detail about cause, type and severity of disability, the extra needs and costs which result, and participation in leisure and social activities. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The depositor has advised that this study should be used in conjunction with the &lt;i&gt;Family Resources Survey, 1996-1997&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;