cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4503-1
title: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2000
title: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 1999-
title: SSA

description: The &lt;i&gt;Scottish Social Attitudes&lt;/i&gt; (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified, clustered sample), it aims to facilitate the study of public opinion and inform the development of public policy in Scotland, similar to the &lt;i&gt;British Social Attitudes&lt;/i&gt; (BSA) series (held at the Archive under GN 33168). The SSA survey has been conducted annually each year since 1999, with the exception of 2008. The survey has a modular structure. In any one year it typically contains three to five modules, each containing 40 questions. Funding for its first two years came from the Economic and Social Research Council, while from 2001 onwards different bodies have funded individual modules each year. These bodies have included the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government and various charitable and grant awarding bodies, such as the Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust. &lt;br&gt;
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Further information on the SSA and links to publications may be found on the ScotCen Social Research &lt;a href="https://natcen.ac.uk/search?series%5B43%5D=43" title="Scottish Social Attitudes" target="_blank"&gt;Scottish Social Attitudes&lt;/a&gt; webpages.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4504-1
title: United Kingdom Time Use Survey, 2000
title: United Kingdom Time Use Survey
title: TUS

description: The key objectives of the &lt;i&gt;United Kingdom Time Use Survey&lt;/i&gt; (TUS) were:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to carry out a large-scale household survey featuring self-completion diaries to measure the amount of time spent by the UK population on various activities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to build on the lessons learnt from the &lt;i&gt;National Pilot Time Use Survey&lt;/i&gt; (not currently held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA)) and other previous exercises&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to ensure that the TUS provides data for government departments' academic research requirements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to carry out the TUS in a European framework with design and administration along the lines of the Eurostat specification, and to provide results comparable, as far as possible, with those envisaged by them, but with modifications taking account of UK government and academic needs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to deposit a documented dataset in an understandable and accessible format with the UKDA and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), for analysis by academic and government users respectively&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;There has been an increasing interest in time use studies and the information they produce. How we choose to spend our time is one of the main factors that shape our lives, and time use studies provide an opportunity to measure these choices and the routine of every day life. The way in which these choices affect time use has important implications for public policy, in particular in areas of employment, social security, childcare, labour market, health and education. The range of the TUS is very broad and its implications will be felt at both local and national level.&lt;br&gt;
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The current TUS is the first large-scale study of its kind to be conducted in this country. Previous studies have taken place before, namely the ESRC-funded &lt;i&gt;Time Use Survey&lt;/i&gt; of 1987 (not currently held at UKDA), and in 1995 OPCS (now the Office for National Statistics) carried out a 'simple' diary exercise within the &lt;i&gt;Omnibus&lt;/i&gt; survey (held at UKDA under SN 3951). The additional value gained from measuring time use in this study will result in a national time use database, that is available for analysis by government and academic users.&lt;br&gt;
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For the second edition of the study (November 2002), the episode diary data was added, the documentation was updated, and some changes were made to the household and individual files. Further updates to the data and documentation were made for the third edition (September 2003). For further details, see documentation.&lt;br&gt;
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A dataset comprising imputed net income variables derived from the TUS has been compiled by Tania Burchardt of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is held at the UKDA under SN 5536.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4506-1
title: Cambridge Centre for Business Research Management Practice of Foreign Ownership Firms Dataset, 1985-1994

description: Foreign direct investment [FDI] into the United Kingdom (UK) has grown considerably in recent years. US, French, German and Japanese companies have generally accounted for the largest share of this FDI. In addition to greenfield and expansion investment, a major vehicle for inward FDI has been the acquisition of UK companies. &lt;br&gt; The project examined whether nationally distinct approaches to management were introduced, following acquisition, among a sample of 201 UK subsidiaries of French, German, Japanese, US and UK companies. It provided data on the extent of changes and the post-acquisition influence of the new parent, comparing changes between the four foreign nationalities and a UK control group.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4508-1
title: Constituency Campaigning in the 2001 General Election
title: Consituency Campaigning in General Elections, 1992-

description: Over the last decade, there has been a renewal of interest in, and revaluation of, the effects of local constituency campaigning on the part of both academics and political parties. From the 1950s to the 1980s, as campaigning became more 'nationalised' - dominated by party leaders and focused almost exclusively on the national mass media - local constituency campaigns came to be seen as rather meaningless side-shows. During the 1980s, however, a significant 'revisionist' literature appeared, suggesting that effective and intense constituency campaigning could have a significant impact in terms of improved electoral performance by the parties and, partly as a consequence of this, the parties themselves have recently placed much more emphasis on local campaigning.&lt;br&gt;
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Five studies have been conducted in this series so far, of which four are currently available from the UK Data Archive. These cover the 1992 election (held under SN 3587), the 1997 election (SN 3922), 2001 election (SN 4508) and the 2010 election (SN 6830). A study was conducted in 2005, but the Archive does not hold the 2005 data.&lt;br&gt;
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 This study, the third in the series, builds upon previous research by Denver and Hands. They showed that during the 1990s, a much more professional approach to local campaigning was adopted and increased resources were devoted to the activity. The aim of this project was to assess and chart the continuing developments in campaigning (such as the increased use of telephone canvassing, direct mail, etc.). The 2001 general election was particularly interesting in terms of campaigning, because of the very different electoral context - the Conservatives were on the attack, Labour on the defensive. As in 1992 and 1997, the data also allowed the principal investigators to construct an index of campaign intensity for each party in each constituency, which was then used in conjunction with election results to determine whether local campaigning continues to have a significant impact on electoral outcomes.&lt;br&gt;
Interviews with key national campaign strategists and with regional/local officials were also undertaken, which added qualitative depth to the quantitative findings (only the survey data is held at the UK Data Archive).
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4509-1
title: Staffordshire Landowners, 1873

description: The main aim of the project was to create from the return of owners in 1873 an accurate list of landowners for Staffordshire. This could be compared with Bateman's calculations of the number of owners in individual counties and the whole of England and Wales according to certain categories of status. Bateman defined these categories as possessing a certain fixed acreage and in some cases, but not all, a certain rental. He also included the owners in their main county of ownership to avoid duplication when he came to calculate figures for the whole of England and Wales. This project aimed to identify duplicate entries which arose from using the rate books for every parish as the method of compilation and to reassign certain entries designated as individuals to corporate ownership by parish authorities, limited companies and so on. It also necessitated an extensive search in the return especially for adjoining counties to determine where individuals had their main estate. The research required many biographical studies to establish whether entries were duplicates or not.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4511-2
title: Workplace Employment Relations Survey: Time-Series Dataset, 1980-2011
title: Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 1980-
title: Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS/WERS)

description:   The &lt;i&gt;Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) Time-Series Dataset 1980-2011&lt;/i&gt; is derived from the data collected in the interviews with the main management respondent in each of the cross-section surveys in the Workplace Employment Relations Survey series (1980, 1984, 1990, 1998, 2004 and 2011) and the 1991 Employers' Manpower Skills Practices Survey (a follow-up to the 1990 WIRS). The dataset contains consistently defined variables (where possible) for data items that are present in the 1998, 2004 or 2011 surveys and at least one other previous cross-section survey in the series.&lt;br&gt;
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Taking a topic such as the presence of a multi-issue joint consultative committee (Questions: DJOINT and DISSUES), similar questions were first identified in each of the 1980, 1984 and 1990 surveys. The 1991 EMSPS also served as a source of data in instances where an issue was not covered in WIRS90 but was covered in EMSPS. If the questions that were found across the series were considered sufficiently similar to permit the compilation of a consistent measure, a data item would be derived from each of the relevant survey data files in turn (see syntax files Get80ts.sps, Get84ts.sps, etc.). Having derived these consistent data items, workplace records from each of the surveys were then added together (see MergeTS.sps) to form a single time-series dataset that spanned the whole of the series. An additional variable named YEAR was also added to the dataset to identify the survey from which each individual observation originates. Further details may be found in the documentation and on the gov.uk &lt;a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-2011-workplace-employment-relations-study-wers" title="WERS 2011"&gt;WERS 2011&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;br&gt;
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The time-series dataset also contains a link variable (TEUKLEMS) that enables observations to be linked to the EU KLEMS industry-level database, which provides measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for the UK from 1970 onwards. Further information can be found at the &lt;a href="http://www.euklems.net/index.html" title ="EU KLEMS Project"&gt; EU KLEMS Project&lt;/a&gt; web page. &lt;br&gt;
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For the third edition (September 2014), data for 2011 have been added to the time series file and the documentation updated accordingly. The SPSS syntax used for the addition of the 2011 data has also been deposited. &lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.15468/dl.hjzkek
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 4 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Anacardium occidentale",
 "Country is Tonga",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 4 records from 3 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0031147-250920141307145/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-4513-1
title: Learning and Training at Work, 2001
title: Learning and Training at Work, 1999-

description: The 'Learning and Training at Work' surveys, which commenced in 1999, are an annual series of employer surveys that investigate the provision of learning and training at work. The surveys also investigate awareness of, and involvement with, a number of existing and new training and development initiatives. Learning and training information had previously been collected, along with information on recruitment difficulties, skill shortages and skill gaps, in the annual 'Skill Needs in Britain' (SNIB) surveys, which were carried out between 1990 and 1998 (these surveys are not currently held at UKDA).&lt;br&gt;
The objectives of the 'Learning and Training at Work' survey series are to collect information about:&lt;br&gt;
key indicators of employers' commitment to training, such as the Investors in People award; &lt;br&gt;
the volume, type and pattern of off-the-job training provided;&lt;br&gt;
learning opportunities offered;&lt;br&gt;
awareness of, and involvement with, a number of initiatives relevant to training;&lt;br&gt;
the costs associated with the provision of training.&lt;br&gt;
The information collected will be used to inform policy decision making.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4514-1
title: Continuous Household Survey, 2000-2001
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;
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4517-1
title: Crop Yields and Animal Carcass Weights in England, c.1700-1914

description: The aim of the Leverhulme funded project was to extract crop yields and carcass weights from farm records that survive for the period 1700-1914. The objective was to use the data to construct a history of farm production in England for that period.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4520-1
title: Dissension in the House of Commons, 1924 and 1929-1931

description: The research aimed to analyse the voting behaviour of MPs (especially Labour) in the House of Commons during the Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929-1931. Every division (vote) was examined to determine levels of dissent within the Labour, Conservative and Liberal parliamentary parties in the period, with the primary focus on the Labour party. The data enable comparison of the levels of Labour dissent in the 1924 and 1929-1931 Labour Governments with those of post-war Labour Governments.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4524-1
title: Impact of New Technology on the Communication of Parliamentary Information, 2001

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary and devolved assembly information to the general public. It consisted of two distinct stages:&lt;br&gt; Stage 1) A series of semi-structured interviews with representatives of the public information services of the UK Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly. These interviews gathered data on the objectives and strategies of the services and on the information access and dissemination activities used and developed by each one.&lt;br&gt; Stage 2) The application of a new data collection tool: an interactive, electronically assisted interview taken out across the UK as part of a pilot roadshow to organisations such as public libraries, community centres, sheltered accommodation and universities. Here, a researcher, aboard a minibus equipped with a laptop and mobile data transmission equipment, invited members of the public to explore and respond to the web sites of the UK Parliament, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales. This roadshow approach was developed in an attempt to gather data from all groups in the community and not only those with an expressed or obvious need for parliamentary information and was devised as means of getting close to the everyday lives of those studied. These sessions utilised verbal protocol analysis, where the respondents were asked to 'think aloud' as they progressed with their search.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4525-1
title: Management and Labour in Turkey, 1999-2000

description: There is much general discussion today of 'globalisation'. The overall aim of the research is to examine in a rapidly industrialising region of Turkey how management practice is being westernised in the private manufacturing sector - as judged by the introduction of particular modern capitalist management strategies and techniques - and to examine employees' responses to such changes in the context of a particular historically forged social structure. &lt;br&gt; Within this overall aim, specific objectives of the research were:&lt;br&gt; to explore the sources of managers' ideas about contemporary management practices and their evaluation of these in the light of their particular economic and social circumstances;&lt;br&gt; to document policies on recruitment and retention of labour, forms of labour and sub-contracting, production organisation and new technology, HRM and work relations, trade unionism and collective bargaining.&lt;br&gt; Managers' and workers' responses to the above matters were investigated using interviews, surveys and observational study, with particular account taken of the significance of key sociological variables, including internal migration, ethnicity, gender, family life and social networks. &lt;br&gt; Users should note that the dataset held at UK Data Archive only contains quantitative survey and coded interview data.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4526-1
title: Vital Statistics for England and Wales, 2000
title: Vital Statistics for England and Wales, 1981-

description: The purpose of the &lt;i&gt;Vital Statistics for England and Wales&lt;/i&gt; data is to record the numbers of conceptions, live births, stillbirths, deaths and causes of death for persons in England and Wales, by gender and age. Data are available at local authority, health authority and ward level. Individual studies in the series record various parts of these data. Changes have been made over time to the way in which the Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects vital statistics data, resulting in some variation in the content of later studies in the series. Further information may be found in the &lt;i&gt;Key Population and Vital Statistics&lt;/i&gt; reports available from the ONS web site.&lt;br&gt;
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During 2006, Sam Smith and colleagues at ESDS Government carried out work on various studies in the series prior to 2002, to improve the data format. The resulting files have been redeposited at the UKDA. More information is available in the documentation for the studies concerned.&lt;br&gt;
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 The data cover mainly local and health authority level data for 2000: births and deaths summary data, births data, mortality data by cause, infant and perinatal mortality data. Some data at ward level are also included: births and deaths by wards and deaths by selected causes by wards.&lt;br&gt;
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For the second edition (2006), work was carried out on parts of the data by ESDS Government to produce more user-friendly tab-delimited ASCII files. For the third edition (October 2008), the files from DVS1 and DVS3 were added to complete the dataset. The data are also available in Excel and ONS ITELite format.&lt;br&gt;
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DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-4537-1
title: Ecological Aspects of Agricultural Sustainability, c.1576-1946; The Archives
title: The Archives

description: The aim of the project was to extract data from appropriate farm records and other sources in England for the period 1500-2000 to address the questions of whether and how English agriculture was 'sustainable' in the period. The objective was to reconfigure English agriculture for the period within a framework defined by the modern concept of 'sustainable development'.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The project had five aims and objectives:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; i) To recontextualise English agricultural history in the framework and language of modern concepts of sustainable development&lt;br&gt; ii) To view the agricultural history of England since 1500 in a manner which is methodologically different from the traditional line of argument which concentrates on economic and technological issues&lt;br&gt; iii) To raise questions about the shift from sustainable to non- sustainable agriculture at different periods, and to ask why it occurred&lt;br&gt; iv) To ask whether the historical experience offers valuable insights for an understanding of modern agricultural issues, within the context of sustainable development&lt;br&gt; v) To prepare a dataset on agriculture in England c.1500-2000 in the context of sustainable agricultural development&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The impact of this research is to complement the more traditional approaches to English agricultural history in the period. On the one hand this has been mainly a descriptive characterisation of agricultural change, usually without a theoretical framework, and on the other it has concentrated on the measured outputs of agriculture. This project employed the modern concept of sustainability to give the processes of change a much needed framework, and within that framework it looks at the implications of the inputs and their relationship with maintaining the quality of the soil. Sustainability has become one of the most fashionable social science concepts, and although it developed on a global basis, and within that mainly on a third world basis, it nevertheless offers significant opportunities for adaptation to English agricultural history.