 In this short video we're going to have a look at downloading the data from understanding society. In order to download data through the UK data service you will need to be registered with us. If you haven't already done this then you do this by clicking on the register icon in the top right hand corner. Here all you need to do is click on register with the UK data service under the heading new users. If you're at a UK based university then you're going to be using your normal institutional login details. So here you need to start typing in the name of your organization. For example I'm at Essex. If you type in the word Essex you'll see the number of institutions. Simply select the one that's relevant to you and then click on continue. You will then be taken to your usual institutional login page. Enter your normal username and password and then follow the steps through to register. It should only take you a few minutes. If you need any additional guidance you can find a video tutorial on our website. Once you've registered with us you can go to our website and have a look for the data. There are a number of ways to find data on our website but we know which survey we're interested in. So we'll use the get data and the key data page. Understanding societies are longitudinal studies so we'll click on the link for longitudinal studies and this will bring up a list of the key longitudinal studies that we hold and understanding society is at the bottom of the screen. Simply click on the name and then it will give you a list of all the data sets that are available. The one that we want to download is under study number 6614 and that's the data from waves 1 to 6. Simply click on the survey name and that will take you to the data catalogue page. Please take a few moments to read through this page as there's a lot of useful information about the data on this page. To download the data we simply click on the download slash order link. If you're not already logged in you'll be prompted to log in. Again you'll log in using your institutional details. When you're registered as a user you will have been asked to enter details about the project for which you wish to use data form. I've got a number of usages here. We'll select the top one and then we'll click on add data sets. Here's understanding society ready and then we just need to click on download. There is an end user license agreement so please do take a few moments to have a look at the conditions of use. Before you click on I accept. Now all the data sets we hold are available in a number of different formats. We're going to be using SPSS for all of the exercises in this module so we click on the SPSS button. You will then be shown a zip folder and in this zip folder contains all of the information. This is what we call the data download. In here you'll find the data itself but you will also find all of the relevant documentation such as the user guide and the questionnaires and that's how we download data through the UK data service.