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[Page last updated 24 Oct 2011]
UK Data Archive (UKDA)
Based at Essex University. Provides the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. This covers major social surveys including those by government.
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities.The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities.
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
NCRM is a Hub-Node network of research groups, each conducting research and training in an area of social science research methods, coordinated by the Hub at the University of Southampton. The Centre forms part of ESRC's strategy to improve the standards of research methods across the UK.
Survey Resources Network
The Survey Resources Network (SRN) is a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to co-ordinate and develop ESRC activities related to survey research methods. This includes the Survey Question Bank and materials for Survey Skills, Survey Design and Management and Survey Management Systems.
There is also a related discussion on Methodspace with free membership, but not much traffic as yet.
Survey Question Bank
Used to be based at Surrey but is now co-ordinated from Essex as part of the Survey Resource Network (see above)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR is an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations and provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. it maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Educational activities include the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research ,a comprehensive curriculum of intensive courses in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology. ICPSR also leads several initiatives that encourage use of data in teaching, particularly for undergraduate instruction. ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and maintains its office in Ann Arbor. (more)
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (USA)
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. The Roper Center does not conduct surveys—it is an archive, preserving the data from polls conducted by many leading survey research organizations for the use of researchers, students, and journalists.
On-Line resources
Question banks
Lists sources of questions, questionnaires and variables, including cross-national.
On-line surveys
List of organisations offering software and services
Survey Methods Tutorials
Lists useful downloadable tutorials and other learning materials
ReStore
A sustainable web resources repository (funded by ESRC) developed at Edinburgh Napier University
ReStore is a sustainable repository of online research methods resources which preserves, sustains and actively maintains web resources developed as part of ESRC funding mainly representing subjects of research methods in social sciences. These online resources not only provide a valuable personal development resource for researchers unable to participate in face-to-face training, but also provide an important repository of social science knowledge.
We have restored a number of online methods resources into ReStore repository (www.restore.ac.uk) which are updated regularly in collaboration with the original web resource authors. The active collaboration between ReStore team and primary project investigators ensures that the contents on the site are up to date and all the links on the site are functional and working as expected. This relationship is infact what makes ReStore repository a reliable source of knowledge in research methods both in terms of content quality and availability. Read more
Includes PEAS (Practical Exemplars and Survey Analysis) now back in operation, hosted by Southampton
University and operated in conjunction with Natcen supported by the ESRC Research Methods programme, aims to show social researchers:
1. UK survey Web links
2 Web sites with resources to help with survey analysis
3. Non UK survey organisations
4 Recommended text books
Market Research World
Market Research World (MRW) previously Market Research Portal (MRP) offers a host of online resources and research related articles relevant to market research buyers, researchers, newcomers to the industry, students and individuals with an interest in the market research industry.
UK Data Archive (UKDA)
Based at Essex University. Provides the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. This covers major social surveys including those by government.
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities.The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities.
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
NCRM is a Hub-Node network of research groups, each conducting research and training in an area of social science research methods, coordinated by the Hub at the University of Southampton. The Centre forms part of ESRC's strategy to improve the standards of research methods across the UK.
Survey Resources Network
The Survey Resources Network (SRN) is a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to co-ordinate and develop ESRC activities related to survey research methods. This includes the Survey Question Bank and materials for Survey Skills, Survey Design and Management and Survey Management Systems.
There is also a related discussion on Methodspace with free membership, but not much traffic as yet.
Survey Question Bank
Used to be based at Surrey but is now co-ordinated from Essex as part of the Survey Resource Network (see above)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR is an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations and provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. it maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Educational activities include the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research ,a comprehensive curriculum of intensive courses in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology. ICPSR also leads several initiatives that encourage use of data in teaching, particularly for undergraduate instruction. ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and maintains its office in Ann Arbor. (more)
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (USA)
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. The Roper Center does not conduct surveys—it is an archive, preserving the data from polls conducted by many leading survey research organizations for the use of researchers, students, and journalists.
On-Line resources
Question banks
Lists sources of questions, questionnaires and variables, including cross-national.
On-line surveys
List of organisations offering software and services
Survey Methods Tutorials
Lists useful downloadable tutorials and other learning materials
ReStore
A sustainable web resources repository (funded by ESRC) developed at Edinburgh Napier University
ReStore is a sustainable repository of online research methods resources which preserves, sustains and actively maintains web resources developed as part of ESRC funding mainly representing subjects of research methods in social sciences. These online resources not only provide a valuable personal development resource for researchers unable to participate in face-to-face training, but also provide an important repository of social science knowledge.
We have restored a number of online methods resources into ReStore repository (www.restore.ac.uk) which are updated regularly in collaboration with the original web resource authors. The active collaboration between ReStore team and primary project investigators ensures that the contents on the site are up to date and all the links on the site are functional and working as expected. This relationship is infact what makes ReStore repository a reliable source of knowledge in research methods both in terms of content quality and availability. Read more
Includes PEAS (Practical Exemplars and Survey Analysis) now back in operation, hosted by Southampton
University and operated in conjunction with Natcen supported by the ESRC Research Methods programme, aims to show social researchers:
- how to analyze complex surveys using different packages
- why this is important by looking at the theory behind the methods and
- what are the practical consequences for real examples
- how to make allowance for survey non-response using weighting or imputation More
1. UK survey Web links
2 Web sites with resources to help with survey analysis
3. Non UK survey organisations
4 Recommended text books
Market Research World
Market Research World (MRW) previously Market Research Portal (MRP) offers a host of online resources and research related articles relevant to market research buyers, researchers, newcomers to the industry, students and individuals with an interest in the market research industry.
