cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5207-1
title: Audit of Political Engagement 2, 2004
title: Audit of Political Engagement, 2003-
title: Electoral Commission and Hansard Society Audit of Political Engagement 2, 2004

description: The &lt;i&gt;Audit of Political Engagement&lt;/i&gt; is a time-series study providing an annual benchmark to measure political engagement in Great Britain, gauging public opinion about politics and the political system, and more broadly the general health of our democracy. Each Audit report presents the findings from a public opinion survey, providing detailed commentary on a range of measures that have been chosen as key measures of political engagement. Repeating questions in successive years enables us to chronicle the public’s responses year on year and track the direction and magnitude of change since the Audit was first published in 2004, building trend data on public attitudes to key aspects of our democracy. &lt;br&gt;
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The Audit looks at core inter-locking areas that are known as vital facets, or 'building blocks', of political engagement. Given the multi-dimensional nature of political engagement, the indicators chosen are not exhaustive, but in capturing aspects of public behaviour, knowledge, opinions, attitudes and values towards politics they help us understand the drivers of political engagement and the relationships between them. Across the Audit series several 'core' indicator questions have been asked each year, supplemented by a range of thematic and topical questions, some of which are re-visited on two- or three-year cycles.&lt;br&gt;
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Further information about the survey series is available from the Hansard Society &lt;a href="https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/research/audit-of-political-engagement" title="Audit of Political Engagement"&gt;Audit of Political Engagement&lt;/a&gt; webpages.&lt;br&gt;
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 &lt;i&gt;Audit of Political Engagement 2, 2004&lt;/i&gt; provides an update of the six core indicators.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5214-1
title: Divided We Stand: Bridging Differential Understanding of Environmental Risk: GIS-P Maps, 2004

description: The research project from which this dataset was produced was designed to help bridge the divide in understanding of the possible environmental causes of breast cancer in the United Kingdom. This divide exists between the official cancer research and treatment world, and other unofficial groups of diverse expertise. The geographic information system methodology used (Geographic Information Systems for Participation, or GIS-P) was intended to increase the understanding of the various positions in the debate both for the researchers, but also more importantly, between the communities of interest. The intention was to stimulate debate through the shared understanding that could be achieved by debating the knowledge and viewpoints expressed through the maps. In this respect, debate stimulation was more important than to capture detailed participatory derived spatial data (as has been the case with previous GIS-P projects). In practice, the process proved problematic, which explains the relatively limited quantity of GIS-P data collected.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5215-1
title: Benefit Leavers Survey, 2004
title: Benefit Leavers Survey, 2003-

description: The Benefit Leavers Surveys began in 2002-2003. The series aims to provide data on the destinations of working-age benefit leavers. At present, information on destinations is collected for Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) recipients, but not for other benefit leavers. This research therefore aims to provide the equivalent information for them via survey data collection.&lt;br&gt;
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The specific objectives of the research series are as follows:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to produce data that are comparable as possible with the future administrative solution (specifically, this involves the collection of information on immediate destination after leaving the benefit, details on hours and earnings where the destination is work, current activity at time of interview), and demographic information not already held administratively;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to provide data for a large and representative sample of leavers in particular client groups;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to provide input into the design of the administrative data collection exercise.&lt;/li&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5221-1
title: Cornwall Online Census Project, 1841

description: The aim of Free Census is to transcribe all the UK 19th century census returns. It is part of Free UKGEN and is a sister project to FreeBMD and Free REG. The intention is that all three of the UK primary sources for the family historian will be online and “free to view.”
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5222-1
title: Database of Australasian Government Loans Offered by Public Sale in London, 1857-1914

description: The project’s main aims:&lt;br&gt; 1.To contribute to knowledge by engaging in a study of the relationship between Australia, New Zealand and international capital markets 1850-1950 which would focus on three key themes:&lt;br&gt; i.The history of Australia and New Zealand as borrowers and debtors.&lt;br&gt; ii.The rise and consolidation of the British 'colonial' market in the London capital market from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1920s.&lt;br&gt; iii.The interaction between the market disciplines to which all borrowers were subject, and the opportunities and constraints created by membership of the British Empire.&lt;br&gt; The study would also evaluate recent arguments (Cain and Hopkins, 1993) about the role of the City of London in the dynamics of British imperial expansion and control with respect to two British settler societies, Australia and New Zealand.&lt;br&gt; 2.To extend and revise the statistics of Australasian public debt in the period 1850-1950.&lt;br&gt; 3.To create a database of Australasian overseas public loans during that period.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project’s specific objectives were to complete three stages of research:&lt;br&gt; 1.The consultation of archival and printed official sources in the United Kingdom and Australia relating to Australasian borrowing activity and relations with overseas creditors during nineteenth century. These either had not been available to, or were not consulted by, earlier historians.&lt;br&gt; 2.The collection of quantitative data for revised statistics of Australian and New Zealand public debt between 1850 and 1950.&lt;br&gt; 3.The collection of data for a database of Australasian overseas public loans during that period.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5227-1
title: Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2004
title: Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 1998-
title: NILT

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey&lt;/em&gt; (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.&lt;br&gt;The main aims of the NILT series are:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to facilitate academic social policy analysis;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the &lt;a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040#!/access-data"&gt;Young Life and Times Survey&lt;/a&gt; (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. 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;NILT also forms part of the &lt;a title="International Social Survey Programme" href="http://www.issp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;International Social Survey Programme&lt;/a&gt; (ISSP), although it does not do so every year. Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues, though YLT ran as normal that year; NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several &lt;a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040#!/access-data"&gt;open access teaching datasets&lt;/a&gt; were created by ARK (Access Research Knowledge) from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;



&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the series may be found on the ARK &lt;a title="NILT" href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;NILT&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5232-1
title: Young People's Situations and Well-being in Siberia, 2002-2003

description: The study looks at young people's well-being in urban and rural communities in two regions of Siberia. The major contextual factor is locality. One of the study regions is at the centre, around Russia's third city of Novosibirsk; the other is at the periphery, in the Republic of Altai, around the small city of Gorno-Altaisk.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The cohort of young people in the study were born towards the end of the 1980s and began their schooling in the 1990s during a period of profound change, uncertainty and reform, after the collapse of Soviet society. At the time of the study, these young people were at a critical juncture in their lives, at the end of their compulsory education, and so, had to contemplate their futures beyond school.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The major aim of the study was to examine young people’s situations and well-being in social context, and particularly the extent of urban-rural divides in young people’s situations and well-being, and also the extent of socio-economic variations in well-being between urban and rural society.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The study used: a self-completion questionnaire in 72 schools (15 year-olds, n =1,400, 95% response rate); individual interviews with a sub-sample of survey participants to obtain more detailed accounts of young people’s lives and situations (n=120); and friendship group interviews with older youth (n=20) (&lt;i&gt;the data deposited consists of the results from the self-completion questionnaire only&lt;/i&gt;). Fieldwork in small communities was clustered within selected rural districts. Checks with limited official data available show the sample reflects urban-rural population distributions, household profiles and ethnicity in the two regions.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The survey datasets are distinctive among studies of Russian youth: they provide a regional focus in Siberia, away from western Russia; they comprise a diversity of urban and rural settings; they are supplemented by interviews; they look at subjective components of young people’s situations and well-being, alongside profiles of their household circumstances; and they allow for intra-regional, inter-regional and international comparisons.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5233-1
title: Research Capacity Building Network Skills Survey, 2001-2002
title: RCBN Skills Survey; Consultation and Training and Development Needs of Researchers in Education

description: The Research Capacity Building Network (RCBN) was a key part of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). It was based at the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. The purpose of the project was to support the research capacity building activities of TLRP and, where possible, to extend these to the wider educational research community. In particular, the RCBN was established to facilitate the sharing of research skills, knowledge and expertise among social scientists, to assist the professional career development of individual researchers, and thereby to support the development of expertise in the United Kingdom field of education research. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project activities were focused around three core elements: a review of the research resources available within the TLRP and beyond, and identification of opportunities for adding value and collaboration; support for research capacity building activities and training within the TLRP; and dissemination and training targeted at the wider research community.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The first stage of the work was to undertake an extensive consultation exercise to identify priorities for research capacity-building and to generate a database of expertise from across the UK educational research community. The consultation included interviews with 24 key stakeholders, representing many constituencies of the education system, and a consultation survey, undertaken to ascertain the methodological training needs of educational researchers. Over five hundred responses to the consultation survey, were received from members of the TLRP, BERA, LSRN, and many other educational researchers.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5234-1
title: Railway Timetables on Selected Important and Minor Routes, 1850, 1870, 1887 and 1910

description: These data were created as part of the project 'Understanding the effects of different generations of large-scale technological change' which used modern economic theory to measure more accurately the effects of major technological changes. It did this by comparing current major new technology - computing- with two previous generations of large-scale technological change, railways and electricity, thereby creating a yardstick by which to judge what constitutes a large effect. It then moved away from the commonly held assumption that new technology simply reduces the price of existing goods and instead examined the notion that major new technologies create new goods and that consumers value some of those new goods very highly. It also considered the extent to which these technologies deserve the term general purpose, by looking at how evenly the effects of each technology are spread across the different sectors of the economy. &lt;br&gt; These particular data were used to more accurately assess the average speeds of English and Welsh railways in the period.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5235-1
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2003
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; Some of the questions from the 2003 survey, on Muslim people living in Scotland, also formed part of a further mixed methods study, the &lt;i&gt;Scottish Minorities Survey, 2003-2004&lt;/i&gt;, which is held at the UKDA under SN 5344. As the data are not reproduced in the other study, users of 5344 are advised to order the 2003 BSA and the &lt;i&gt;Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2003&lt;/i&gt; (held under SN 5076).&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5236-1
title: Survey of English Housing, 2002-2003
title: Survey of English Housing, 1993-2008
title: SEH

description: The &lt;i&gt;Survey of English Housing&lt;/i&gt; (SEH) was a continuous annual survey series, which began in 1993. The survey provided key housing data on tenure, owner occupation and the social rented sector, and regular information about the private rented sector. The survey was originally sponsored by the Department of the Environment, which became the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in time for the 1996-1997 survey, then the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, by 2000-2001. Responsibility for the SEH was transferred to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister after the fieldwork for the 2002-2003 survey commenced, and on 5 May 2006 the series became part of the remit of the newly-established Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). &lt;br&gt;
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The main aims of the SEH were to provide regular information about the main features of people's housing and their views about their circumstances, and information about the private rented sector (not covered by routine administrative statistics like the owner-occupied and social rented sectors).&lt;br&gt;
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From 2008, the SEH merged with the &lt;i&gt;English House Condition Survey&lt;/i&gt; (EHCS) to form the new &lt;i&gt;English Housing Survey&lt;/i&gt; (EHS). The last SEH dataset is the 2007-2008 study. The EHS data are available at the UK Data Archive under GN 33422.&lt;br&gt;
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Further information about the SEH and the EHS may be found on the DCLG web site &lt;a href="http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingsurveys/surveyofenglishhousing/" title="Survey of English Housing"&gt;Survey of English Housing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingsurveys/englishhousingsurvey/" title="English Housing Survey"&gt;English Housing Survey&lt;/a&gt; web pages.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5239-1
title: Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey, 2004
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 2004 SALSUS survey aimed to continue the monitoring of smoking, drinking and drug use and to continue the time series at the national level. The 2004 survey was not designed to produce local area estimates or to collect data on lifestyle in quite the same way as the 2002 survey, although some key contextual questions were retained. Thus, the metholodology used for the 2004 survey differed in some respects from the previous survey - please see the user guide for exact details.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5241-1
title: New Europe Barometer I-XV Trend Dataset, 1991-2007
title: New Europe Barometers, 1991-
title: New Europe Barometer Trends, 1991-2007

description: The &lt;i&gt;New Europe Barometer&lt;/i&gt; (NEB) series, originally known as the &lt;i&gt;New Democracies Barometer&lt;/i&gt; (NDB), has been conducted annually across Central and Eastern Europe since autumn 1991. The same questions are asked in each country and repeated from year to year, so trends can be analysed across a wide variety of post-Communist societies. Approximately 1,000 respondents in each country are interviewed face-to-face each year about their economic, political and social attitudes and behaviour. Data are available for separate years and also as a trend dataset (SN 5241). Further information on the NEB is available on the &lt;a href ="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cspp/catalog13_0.shtml" title ="CSPP Barometer Surveys"&gt;CSPP Barometer Surveys&lt;/a&gt; web site, along with details of other survey series.&lt;br&gt;
 &lt;i&gt;New Europe Barometer I-XV Trend Dataset, 1991-2007&lt;/i&gt; covers 15 post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: 10 new EU member states (Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania); Croatia and Serbia; and three former Soviet Union (FSU) countries (Russia, Belarus and Ukraine). Trend data starts with the first NEB surveys in 1991. The latest trend data for most countries is from the seventh New Europe Barometer round, started in autumn 2004, with some surveys in the early part of 2005. In addition, data from New Russia Barometer surveys I (January 1992) through XV (April 2007) are included. The trend file includes 302 frequently used variables from a total of 103 NEB surveys.&lt;br&gt;
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For the second edition (July 2010), the data and documentation were updated to include data from NEBs I-XV. This edition completely replaces the previous version.&lt;br&gt;