Welcome to the UK Data Service

Trusted access and training to use the UK's largest collection of economic, population and social research data for teaching, learning and public benefit.

Highlights

Submissions are now open for this free conference on 10 July 2024 which will be held online. Deadline for papers is 2 April.

The latest UK Data Service Annual Report is now available. This report covers the period between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023.

For students embarking on their dissertation projects, or those supervising them, the UK Data Service offers dissertation resources, data and events to help with planning and completing a dissertation project.

Latest data collections and new editions

Keep up to date with the latest data and editions as they are added to our data catalogue.

Upcoming training and events

Our impact

Registration for our Poverty in Data Impact event is now open! You can find out more and register here.

We are delighted to introduce the 2023 cohort of Data Impact Fellows. Read more about them in this Data Impact blog post.

How is the UK Data Service collection impacting research, policy and interventions in combating poverty?

Ignite discovery: elevate your research with data deposits

Deposit your research data free, in our ESRC funded data catalogue.

Watch our data skills training webinars

Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.

Intended for anyone who wants to learn about the qualitative or mixed-methods data available from the UK Data Service.

This covers the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data, including quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis.

Who makes us special?

Our podcast series, The Experts’ Expert, showcases some of the unique work we do to enable evidence-led research for public benefit.

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Latest news

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Data Access and Use Assistant. The successful candidate will join our customer-facing Data Access Services team to support the UK Data Service’s data access and helpdesk operations. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree, an equivalent qualification […]

The latest UK Data Service Annual Report is now available. This report covers the period between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023. The UK Data Service has become more than the principal social science digital repository in the UK as we continue to enhance learning, research and policy development. This latest report details how […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9248 Annual Population Survey, January – December, 2023 SN 9227 Kitchen Life 2, 2021-2022 SN 854174 EU Families in Brexiting Britain, 2017-2019 SN 857018 Metadata for Automating Universal Credit, 2022-2023 SN 856804 Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future, 2023 SN 857049 Gaining Consensus on Emotional Wellbeing Themes and Preferences […]