cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5631-1
title: Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection, 2004-2005

description: This project was conducted under the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)/Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultures of Consumption programme, to gather qualitatively rich but also reliably representative data on whether and how people's practices of media consumption (including 'new' media) give them the resources to connect to wider public spaces. The research also examined what implications for forms of democratic citizenship and participation that consumption may have. The research covered the ways that people's practices as media consumers were connected (or not) to their practices as citizens; how individual consumers might themselves understand the relationship between consumption and citizenship; and how far consumers think their media consumption provides them with the resources for citizenship they feel they need and ought to have.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Phase One of the project comprised detailed qualitative work across six regions of England. The diaries of 37 participants' media consumption were analysed, initial and subsequent interviews were conducted with those respondents, and focus group interviews were conducted with diarists. Phase Two involved a telephone survey of 1,017 people, conducted by ICM Research across the United Kingdom that aimed to produce conclusions on the detailed issues about consumption and citizenship raised in Phase One.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further information and reports may be found on the &lt;a href="http://www.publicconnection.org/" title="Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection"&gt;Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection&lt;/a&gt; project web site.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5633-1
title: Participation of Volunteer Citizens in the Governance of Education, 2000-2003

description: This mixed methods study of the participation of school governors/school board members as 'volunteer citizens' examined the influence of volunteers within a reformed system of governance across the United Kingdom, designed to enhance public accountability. In particular, it examined their contribution to school effectiveness and the raising of standards, as well as their influence over local national policy-making. Hypothesising that shared understandings and agreements between all the 'stakeholders' in education are the way to enhance public accountability and raise standards, the research studied ways in which volunteers engage in 'dialogic democracy'; how the institutions of the governance of education facilitate or constrain the 'voice' of volunteers; and how volunteers use their social capital in different regional contexts, at a time of conditional change, to make an effective contribution.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The research was comparative across the UK, and studied the contribution of governors/school board members to education policy, practice and performance at school level, local level, and national level. Qualitative (interviews and observations of meetings) data were collated and analysed to develop an understanding of theory and practice in this area.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; A questionnaire survey was administered to all school governors/board members in the five local authorities which formed the focus of study.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; A programme of interviews was conducted with national-level officials responsible for school governance, local education authority-level officers and members, school-level interviews with chairs, governors, heads and teachers.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Finally, observation notes and minutes were taken of school governing body meetings.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5644-1
title: Understanding Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Medication: a Theory Based Approach, 2002-2005

description: The social-psychological mechanisms that underpin adherence to anti-hypertensive medication are poorly understood. It has been estimated that, within the first year of diagnosis, up to 50% of patients prescribed anti-hypertension agents discontinue their medication, or do not fully adhere to the regimen recommended by their general practitioner (GP). The purpose of this research project was to investigate both motivational and volitional influences on medication adherence within one theory-driven framework. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project included two linked studies. The first was an empirical study, in which a conceptual model of adherence to anti-hypertensive medication was developed, using an expanded version of Ajzen's (1991) 'Theory of Planned Behaviour' (TPB). The second was an intervention study, in which motivational, volitional, and combined motivational-volitional interventions designed to increase adherence, were tested. The TPB results informed the motivational conditions, and Gollwitzer's (1993) concept of implementation intentions, which deals with the problems people encounter in translating goals into action, informed the volitional ones.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further information about the project may be found on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) &lt;a href="http://www.esrcsocietytoday/esrcinfocentre/viewawardpage.aspx?awardnumber=R000239590" title="Understanding Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Medication: a Theory Based Approach"&gt; Understanding Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Medication: a Theory Based Approach&lt;/a&gt; grant award web page.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5645-1
title: Foreign Diplomatic Representatives to the Stuart Court, 1603-1625

description: This project arose from an appendix to the principal investigator's PhD, &lt;i&gt;Foreign Diplomatic Representatives to the Court of James VI and I&lt;/i&gt;. Over past years historians have provided numerous partial lists, some more comprehensive than others, which relate to specific countries and which demonstrate a certain fascination with the question of diplomacy in the early modern period. However, very little work has been undertaken on the ambassadorial group as whole who came to the Stuart court. This project, therefore, aims to provide information on the diplomatic representatives who were sent by their sovereigns or governing aristocracies to the court of St James in the seventeenth century.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5647-1
title: Colchester Primitive Methodist Property Schedules, 1859-1864
title: Colchester Primitive Methodist Records, 1834-1877

description: This project intends to transcribe all the surviving documents pertaining to the Primitive Methodist congregations in Colchester and the surrounding villages in north-east Essex for the period approximately 1844 to 1956. These have been deposited in the Essex and Suffolk Record Offices and are currently [February 2007] held at their branches at Colchester, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds. The Colchester branch is expected to close at the end of March 2007 and the documents are likely to be transferred to Chelmsford. &lt;br&gt;
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As far as is known, no previous transcription of these records has been undertaken in machine-readable form. In addition to depositing a copy with the UK Data Archive it is intended that copies will be deposited with the respective Record Offices, with the present Colchester Methodist Circuit and with the Essex Society for Family History, thus making these data more easily available to academic, local, religious and family historians. &lt;br&gt;
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This digital resource aims to reflect the subject content of the traditional archival deposit of records created by the Primitive Methodist circuit and congregations. It is hoped than once complete it will comprise transcriptions of property schedules, registers of baptisms and burials, minutes of meetings, financial accounts, reports, correspondence and preaching plans.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5648-1
title: News, Mood and Consumer Confidence, 2004-2006

description: Consumer confidence is measured through regular surveys of consumer expectations because it is seen as a useful predictor of consumption. However, substantial seasonality and shocks in consumer confidence suggest that not just economic expectations are being measured. One possibility is that events occurring when expectations are polled - such as major news or weather extremes - affect general mood, or perhaps specific emotions, and thus influence the surveyed responses. The research investigated the hypothesis that events influence affect, that, in turn, influences economic expectations and subsequent consumption.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The hypothesis was tested both through retrospective analyses of the effects of news events on consumer confidence using secondary data, and five empirical studies examining relationships between news, mood, consumer expectations and consumption decisions occurring both at the current time, and in the future. The basic design of the empirical studies was to manipulate mood or specific emotion, then use questionnaires to measure the influence of events and economic (and other) expectations. A couple of the studies relied on naturally occurring mood - which were measured using rating scales - rather than attempting to manipulate it. In one study (designed to investigate the effect of mood and expectations on consumption) one of the dependent variables was the participants' choice between products they wished to have as a gift.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5649-1
title: British East India Company: Salaries Paid to 'Clerks', 1760-1850

description: This resource arose out of research into the date of origin, characteristics, and scale of age-specific salaries, and the relative earnings among the British middle class between 1750 and 1850.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5652-1
title: Worth of Witnesses in the English Church Courts, 1550-1728

description: This project has sought to recover and analyse new data relating to the distribution of wealth and the language of social description in England between c.1550 and c.1750. A database has been compiled of 13,686 responses of witnesses in the church courts to the commonly asked question of what they were worth with their debts paid. Witnesses responses to the question of their worth often included monetary estimates of material worth, alongside details about how they made a living, together with more qualitative forms of evaluation in ethical terms of honesty and industriousness. This data will underpin analysis of the distribution of wealth and poverty by socio/occupational status, age and gender amongst a broad social range of witnesses during a period of profound economic and social change. Particular attention will be given to the nature and pace of economic change; to the relationship between wealth, status and the life-cycle; to the impact of social polarisation deemed characteristic of the periods history; and to the degree to which an incipient labouring class can be discerned. In addition, the terms in which witnesses described their own (and sometimes each others) worth will be explored in order to chart popular concepts of wealth and poverty, perceptions of social difference, and forms of self-esteem that were often far removed from formal classificatory schemes of the early modern social order. Finally, the wider cultural significance of monetary markers of wealth will be probed in order to situate commonly cited values (such as forty shillings and 10) within qualitative as well as quantitative frames of reference. The data also contains extensive information about the literacy status and migration histories of witnesses, and incidental details of their religious observance.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5654-1
title: Social Experience of Transition to School: Learning and Health Outcomes, 2004-2005

description: The overall aim of this study was to look at how children respond to the experience of starting school and their adaptation after six months of the start of their first term. The primary aim was to explore physical stress responses of children before, during and after starting school, measured via morning and evening saliva samples at specific time points throughout the twelve-month study. Additionally, the aims were to examine relationships between these responses and children's behaviour, their learning ability and their physical health outcome (common cold and flu). The following hypotheses were tested:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Aim 1:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;social adaptation at school entry (T2) and follow-up (T3) will be associated with cortisol at each corresponding time point&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;temperament will be associated with awakening cortisol levels and with diurnal change in cortisol across all time points&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Aim 2:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;social adaptation at school entry (T2) will be associated with temperament at baseline (T1) such that greater externalising behaviour at baseline will be positively associated with high social adaptation at school entry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the relationship between social adaptation and cortisol across all time points will be mediated by temperament&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Aim 3:&lt;br&gt; i) learning and memory&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;academic competence assessed at follow-up (T3) will be individually predicted by cortisol across all time points such that higher cortisol levels will be associated with poorer performance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;ii) illness&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;greater cortisol reactivity to stress at school entry (T2) will predict a greater occurrence of respiratory infections and more frequent General Practitioner visits during the six months' follow-up period (T2-T3)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;temperament will be associated with illness reports at follow-up (T3), specifically, high surgency scores will be negatively associated with upper respiratory infections (URI) incidence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5666-1
title: Socio-Economic Position and Political Support of Black and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United Kingdom, 1972-2005

description: The aims of the project were to conduct a systematic research on the labour market position of the minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom; to compare the inter- and intra-generational experience of the minority ethnic groups in the British labour market both amongst themselves and between these groups and the white British population; to assess the extent and the nature of 'ethnic penalty', particularly as experienced by 'second generation' minority ethnic citizens; and to provide evidence for the debate between human capital and social capital theories on ethnic disadvantages and for policy-making.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project utilised data from the &lt;i&gt;General Household Survey&lt;/i&gt; (GHS) and &lt;i&gt;Labour Force Survey&lt;/i&gt; (LFS) series (held at the UK Data Archive under GNs 33090 and 33246 respectively). Key variables were standardised over time, using the GHS from 1972 and the LFS from 1983, and variables covering ethnicity, generation status, age, marital status, educational qualifications, employment status, class, earnings from the labour market, number of children in family unit, and hours of work were used. A set of 18 derived variables were produced, which are included in this dataset. For further details of methodology, see documentation.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; For the second edition (June 2008), an updated version of the data file was deposited. The new file includes GHS 2005 data and two new variables covering source (LFS/GHS), and age respondent left full-time education. The documentation is unchanged.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5671-1
title: Inclusion without Membership: Bringing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Closer to Europe: Mass Surveys, 2004-2005
title: Mass Surveys: Belarus 2004, Russia 2004-2005, Ukraine 2004

description: The project examined attitudes to new forms of co-operation and integration between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and the rest of Europe. All three countries are the immediate neighbours of the expanding Euro-Atlantic community, which, as a result of the first wave of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement in 1999, has already reached their western borders. Despite considerable disparities in their international influence, these countries find themselves 'outsiders' in the advancing process of European Union (EU) and NATO enlargement. A better understanding of the issues of co-operation and integration of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and the rest of 'Europe' is essential in its turn if enlargement is not to lead to 'new dividing lines' across a continent that has only recently been reunited after the Cold War.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; These and related issues are examined through a series of elite interviews, focus groups, mass surveys and printed sources (only the survey data are held at the UK Data Archive). Aims of the project included: studying perceptions of the present state of relations between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and the EU and NATO; asking what material factors and perceptions have underlain the drive of the leaderships to improve their relations with both organisations; examining the forms of 'integration short of membership' that Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian policy communities envisage for their countries in the medium term; and whether current complications in bilateral relations (such as Chechnya or media freedom) are a function of short-term divergences in policy priorities or evidence of a more fundamental difference in normative principles. Finally, the project aimed to discover whether the policy instruments currently used by the EU and NATO to promote Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian convergence with European norms and practices are those that are best calculated to influence official policy in each of the three countries.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5672-1
title: Linking Northern Ireland Census of Population Data, 1971-2001

description: The &lt;i&gt;Northern Ireland Grid-Square Product&lt;/i&gt; comprises population counts for a regular grid of 1km and 100m cells for 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. It is a unique data resource, which has previously been under-utilised because it has been held in an inaccessible format, where data have had to be extracted by the manual entry of each cell's co-ordinates. The data are valuable because they permit the analysis of change through time using geographical units that are consistent between censuses. The &lt;i&gt;Linking Northern Ireland Census of Population Data&lt;/i&gt; project sought to make these data more widely available by extracting all counts for all years and subsequently reformatting the data to make them more amenable for general analysis with commonly used software. Linkages between variables through time have been documented, and basic look-up tables linking the 1km and 100m cell counts to &lt;i&gt;Census 2001&lt;/i&gt; output geographies have been provided. All variable counts for all years are given. The data make it possible to trace local patterns of social, demographic and economic change in Northern Ireland through time, using a consistent geography between 1971 and 2001.&lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5673-1
title: British Electoral Data, 1885-1949

description: This data were originally compiled by F.W.S. Craig and published in &lt;i&gt;British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918-1949&lt;/i&gt;. Dr William Field created a digital version of this data which forms the basis of this study. However, History Data Service has made enhancements to the original digital files. Enhancements consist of the provision of a documentation guide explaining this data in more detail and flagging some potential errors and omissions that the first digital version of this data had in relation to the original printed sources. Note that these data files only refer to general elections.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5674-1
title: Young Life and Times Survey, 2006
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;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-5676-1
title: Longitudinal Three-Nation Study on Relations between Ethnic Minorities and Host Societies among School Students, 2004-2005

description: The project looked at the views of adolescent school students in three European countries; England, Germany and Belgium. Using the same questionnaire in three languages, members of ethnic minority groups and members of the host societies were targeted. Based on social psychological research on intergroup relations, acculturation, prejudice and relative deprivation the study was designed to investigate perceptions of and attitudes between both groups.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Data collection took place in waves of measurement with an average time interval of six months in between. Some individuals were completed the survey in both waves providing a longitudinal element. Background variables include ethnicity, native language, years of residence in the country, parental occupation and education. Variables capturing intergroup perceptions include in-group identification, relative deprivation, acculturation preferences and goals, group permeability, economic competition and others. Intergroup attitudes were assessed both explicitly (liking, desire for social distance, emotions toward the other group) and implicitly (infrahumanisation).