Helpful Links to ESDS Website
Although brief descriptions are given of what is available, users will find it helpful to browse through the pages to see just what is on offer. A little time invested in browsing these pages can often avoid spending large amounts of time preparing teaching materials if the resources here can be adapted instead.
Overview A brief overview of some of the datasets held by ESDS that are suitable for use in teaching. The guidance on teaching itself is geared more towards issues of sampling and measurement error than secondary analysis of data, or learning basic quantitative methods however.
Support Services Page linking to different support services for research methods provided by ESDS.
Datasets Guide A guide to the 35+ teaching datasets held by ESDS, with links to datasets available for analysis using NESSTAR.
ESDS Government Teaching Datasets A page linking to the 7 ESDS government teaching datasets including the LFS, BCS, HSE, GHS, LFS Ethnicity teaching dataset
Teaching and Learning Resources A page with links for ESDS teaching and learning resources
Guides on Software and Analysis A page with downloadable PDF and Word files for workbooks that introduce students to SPSS for Windows (v15), Stata and NESSTAR, as well as guides for weighting, analysing change over time and working with data files (including hierarchical data, matching files and pooling data).
Signing Up Students to Use Datasets Guidance on how to sign up students for using teaching and other secondary datasets.
Providers of Official Statistics Links to web pages of providers of official statistics in the UK
