 Ευχαριστώ πολύ για την αρχή αυτή τη δημιουργία, για να βοηθήσουμε δημιουργία με το UK Data Service. My name is Iraklis Kiricis and today I'm going to be presenting together with my colleague Daniel Spence. We are both members of the data access team within the UK Data Service, where we support our researchers getting access to high quality secondary social science data. Before we begin, we would also like to thank Emma Green and Jill Meadows for facilitating today's webinar. Here is an overview of the topics we will be covering throughout this webinar. The main session will be divided into three sections. In the first section we will begin with a short introduction to the UK Data Service, who we are and what we do. We will then see our data sources, we will speak about who can access the data in our catalogue and we will go through the different ways we categorize the data we hold. This section will also include guidance on how to search and find data, plus a mini activity for practice and feedback. Turning next, the second section will focus on how to access our data. We will initially look at the data access policy, the access conditions and restrictions and the registration process. My colleague Daniel Spence will also go through a live demonstration, which will help you get a clear understanding of the catalogue entries and the different data access levels and types. At the third and final section of this webinar, we will provide you with information on useful resources and the suite of online tools we provide, which can help you explore the data in our collection. There will also be time for questions at the end. Please insert any questions you may have in the Zoom chat box at the bottom of your screen. Throughout this webinar, we will also be using the interactive software Mentimeter. The following slide will provide instructions on how to access Mentimeter on another tab or on any second device. As we will be using Mentimeter in more than one part of our presentations, please do take a second to set this up now. You can do this by simply going to menti.com in any browser or by scanning the QR code you can see on your screen. For your convenience, we suggest to set this up on a smartphone or on any second device you may have. Once you visit menti.com, please enter the code as you see it on your slide. Using this tool, we are now going to ask you a quick set of questions, which will help us understand your current experience with finding and accessing data through the UK data service. The first question we would like to ask you is the following. Prior to today's webinar, have you tried finding or accessing data via the UK data service? Thank you very, very much for participating in the poll. I see that, yes, the majority of the people haven't tried to find or maybe access the data. We are confident that after our webinar we will have increased your confidence and to support you in finding and accessing your data. Thank you very, very much. And one more question before we begin. Overall, if you, of course, have tried to how confident do you feel you are in finding and accessing data from the UK data service. To begin with, let's have a look at what the UK data service is. The UK data service holds the UK largest collection of research data. It is home to the UK's only nationally funded research infrastructure for curating and providing access to social science data and has been influential across the world since it was first established in its original form at the University of Essex in 1967. We are pioneers in data curation and secure long-term research access to data and our expertise continues to transform social science, teaching and learning alongside evidence-based policy reform across the UK. Our data management guidance, policies and protocols are used by national data archives, international research organizations and researchers alike. We are proud that our guidance has helped to remove barriers to accessing data. The UK data service is funded by the UK Research and Innovation through the Economic and Social Research Council in order to meet the data needs of researchers, students and teachers from all sectors, including academia, central and local government, charities and foundations, independent research centers, think tanks, business consultants and the commercial sector. Our primary aim is to provide users with seamless and flexible access to these data sources and to facilitate high quality social and economic research and education. We provide more than just data, we provide guidance, resources and training such as this workshop to make the most of our data and help researchers develop their key skills in data use. Here in the UK data archive, which is the lead organization, we work with colleagues across the UK to deliver the UK data service. We collaborate with research data experts at the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Kathimas Institute for Social Research at the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh and the University College London. If you are interested to find out more on what we do, what are the benefits of secondary analysis and an in-depth presentation of the different types of data we hold, we will highly recommend you to view the recording of our first webinar and introduction to the UK data service. This webinar took place last week on the 23rd of March. You can find it at the UK Data Service YouTube channel and a copy of the slides can be downloaded from the training and events page of our website. Next, we will have a look at the sources of data we hold. The data that we hold come from a wide range of sources and we are allowed to disseminate them under license from the original data depositors. These are separated into end-user license studies, special license studies and secure access studies, each following a different procedure to apply and receive access to. While we are not involved in the collection process for the data we hold, it's important to note that the data are deposited with us. We do take part in preserving the data, curating and presenting them in our catalogue with clear details and documentation, making them available to researchers. Some of the most prominent sources for the data we hold are National Statistics Authorities, such as the Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and another Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, UK Government Departments, including the Home Office, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Department for Work and Pensions. The other depositors of data include intergovernmental organisations that include the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank. Research institutes are also depositing data throughout our service. This includes the National Centre for Social Research, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Finally, and through our catalogue, you can also find data that have been deposited by individual researchers and academics. Researchers that are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council also deposit their data with us through RESEAR, which is the UK Data Services Online Data Repository, where researchers can archive, publish and share data. Looking next into who could benefit from our services, researchers, students and teachers from any discipline, organisation or country may register with the UK Data Service and obtain data. Some data sets have restrictions on access due to the data redistribution license agreements we have with the data provider, but there will be the opportunity for everyone to access our data catalogue. Most of our regular users are affiliated with higher education or further education organisations, but contrary to popular beliefs, everyone can register with us. We have many users from other sectors, such as local and national government departments, charities and think tanks, but you can also register if you are a commercial user. For a commercial user, there might be a further restriction on what you can access and there may also be a fee, something which will depend on the intended use of the data. We also offer the option for researchers not associated with an organisation at all to join and pursue their interests. We currently have just under 48,000 registered users of the service, which come from 148 different countries. The graph you can see on the slide comes from our most recent report, which highlights major achievement in the two-year extraordinary period between April 2020 and March 2022. You can find the full report in our homepage by scrolling down to the section Latest Highlights. The UK data service currently holds more than 9000 data sets of a number of different categories and types, and new data sets are added all the time. A good example of that is data related to COVID-19, which has been very popular within the UK data service in the past few years. The data we offer can be categorised in different ways and our website has been designed to enable you to access the data sets you require in the most straightforward way possible. As we can see on our slide, one of the main ways we categorise data is by their type. Different types can include UK service, cross-national service, longitudinal data, international macro data, census data, business micro data, quantitative or qualitative data and mixed methods data. Another way to categorise data is by purpose. Most of the data we have available are used for research purposes, but we also offer specially curated data sets that are meant to be used for teaching in a classroom setting. These data sets are specifically created for that exact purpose. Another way we categorise the data we hold is by theme. For example, age in crime, economics, politics, COVID-19 education. Furthermore, we also categorise data by the geography. Is it data for a whole country? Is it data for a smaller area or by their access level? Each data set, which is held in the UK data service collection, has an access level designated by the data provider. This level depends on the detail, on the confidentiality and the sensitivity of the data set. At the second part of our webinar, we will look further into the access levels. When searching for the right data to use in your research, it is important to think about the data in all those different ways. It's important to think about who, what, where and when you want to investigate something which can be beneficial and support you during your search for the right data. Next, we can have a quick look as well on the types of the data we have available. Starting first, the survey micro data include major UK surveys. Those are UK surveys that can be used to produce national estimates and many are large surveys that are used to inform policy. Via the UK data service, you can also access collections of cross-national survey data, as well as longitudinal data and studies. Next, our international micro data contains socio-economic time series data, aggregated to a country or regional level. Many of the data sets are the current releases of the major statistical publications produced by intergovernmental organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Turning next, we have the census data. Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation, of the nation and how we live. They provide the detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics and underpin funding allocation to provide public services. The UK data service holds and enables access to aggregate boundary flow and micro data from the last six censuses from 1961 through to 2011, and we are supporting the government in providing access to the census data for 2021. Through our integrated census micro data, we also provide access to census data from 1851 to 1911. Finally, and through our service, we also provide access to qualitative and mixed methods data. Qualitative data is non-numerical information and mixed methods approaches combine the quantitative, the numerical with the qualitative, the non-numerical data. Turning next, we can have a look on some examples in order to see what the data looks like when we open a data set. On this slide, we have an example of quantitative data, numerical data. This is a screenshot which was taken from the data set public attitudes to animal research. This is a survey from 2016. You can find this data set using our data catalog search tool, which we will talk about during the next slides. This data set is available under an open data license due to its low disclosure risk. Indeed, as we can see on the left-hand side, we can see the banded edges and we can also see that the government office regions is the lowest geographic unit in this case. That is part of the reason why this data set is not considered high risk and it is more widely available, since the way this structure minimizes the risk that a participant might be identified by the response. Turning next, on this slide, we can see an example of qualitative data, the non-numerical data. What we see here is a screenshot of a transcript from an interview with Frank Woolley from the data set Family Life and Work Experience before 1918. This data cycle ran from the 1870 to 1973 and it's also known and referred as the Edwardians. This data set is also considered open access and you can find it through Qualibank, which is a very useful online tool which we will see shortly. Just a reminder please that if you would like to know more information about all the different types of data we hold in more detail, we recommend to look back at the recording of our introduction to the UK data service where those information were covered more extensively. We are now going to guide you through the different ways in which you can browse, search and find data via the UK data service. The first way of searching and finding data is by using our catalog search tool. The data catalog search box can be found on the home page, on the find data and on the browse data pages on our website. By visiting the website, www.ukdataservice.ac.uk, you will immediately see the catalog search box. It is the box with the magnifying glass search icon and the little text sets our data catalog. You can use the search box to look for studies or series on a particular subject or the study number or the name of the principal investigator or investigators if it happens to know it. Once you click the search button, a list of related results will appear on the data catalog. Let's have a look on it. As you see on the left hand side, you can either see the result study, so to see data sets or series, which is a bundle of data sets. For example, the understanding society series will have all the different data sets that are belonging to this survey. You can also use various filters, which we see on the left side of the screen and on the catalog page in order to narrow down your search. As we can see, the options we have is data from and date to. Topic, here we can see the overall subject area of a study or series. Please know that when you select this filter, this filter contains only a limited set of high level topics. Data type, this includes cohort and longitudinal studies, UK survey data, business micro data and census data. Access, here you can also filter the results by the type of data access permitted from the data depositor. Country, you can select and refine the country you want to research. And finally, you can of course reset the filters in order to start the search again. Any search query we make on the tool is treated both as a free text search and as a keyword search. The search results will match keywords that are found in the corresponding keyword meta data field in our catalog record. The keywords are subject terms and they are drawn from the UK data archives, humanities and social science electronic thesis. We will call it for short a asset, which has been used to index its study at concept or variable level and which represent the concepts covered by that study. The keyword matches are shown in search result prefixed by the word keyword. If you know the name of the keyword you are looking for, you can type it directly into the search books by typing keyword followed by capital letters, the exact keyword you are looking. As you can see on our slide here, we have a when we type on the search box poverty, it gives us the option as well to do a search on keyword poverty. So that will search all those data sets that when they were catalogued, they have been assigned that keyword in the thesis tool that we will just see in the next slide. Here is the tool. Another interesting option here is that we can perform a search the other way around starting from this tool. I will explain this further. As we already mentioned, all our studies in the UK data service collection, they have all been assigned keywords which are aligned with this tool, which we call it the thesis, the asset. You can directly access this working tool by selecting the help button along the top toolbar on the website and then scrolling down to the section searching for data and using asset to search for data. This tool has over 4600 terms and more than 3500 alternative terms, and it is a great tool that can help you find the appropriate terms in order to search better the data catalog. As we can see, we can either browse the full list from A to Z or we can use the other tab, the higher archive tab to explore it by subject. In our example, we have selected the term poetry and as you can see on your screen, the tool presented us with the broader concept social disadvantage, as well as narrower and further related terms that can potentially be worth exploring. Finally, as we see on the yellow arrow, this tool allows us to perform a direct search for this keyword in the UK data service catalog. Selecting that link, it will do the search for us. Next, and on the ways of searching, browsing and finding data, another very helpful way of finding data is by visiting directly our browse data page. This option is very useful if you have a particular research topic that you are interested in or you know the specific type of data that you are looking. The browse data page can be accessed as follows. On our main homepage, UKdataService.ac.uk, please click on the find data tab along the top toolbar, as pointed here by our purple arrow, and then please select browse and access data as pointed by the yellow arrow. Once we complete those steps, we will visit the page and we will be able to browse data sets based on the major categories, which is the categories we discussed earlier on our webinar. Here, you can browse data by theme, you can browse data by type, or you can scroll further down and have a look at our section with specially created teaching data sets. Another option we have on this page is browse data by general, and here it gives us the following four different options. The search terms, when we select this option, it is a direct link again to the Haset.service tool we just covered. Another way to browse is through geography. As we have already mentioned on the tool, we can use the filter in the catalog search in order to search for data from a particular country, but using this browse section, the geography page will help us find specific geographic data such as administrative data, electoral data, or boundary data. Other options are to browse directly open access data, or to use one of the online tools available through our service. We provide a full sheet of online tools so you can explore all the data held in our collections. We have already discussed the Thesares Haset tool, and during the first section of the webinar, we will also explore the variable and question bank, as well as the quality bank. Some other further popular tools is the Nestar Infuse and UKDS.START, which we will be covered at the third and last section of the webinar. As an example, we can now have a further look on browsing data by theme. The theme section will be particularly helpful if you know the topic you want to research, but you are not sure where to start with finding useful data sets. As we can see in these sections, the data we offer currently cover 14 different themes. Those include aging, environment and energy, health, politics, poetry, as well as the newest addition, the COVID-19 theme. Selecting any of the above will present us the individual theme page. Here on our example, we will select the COVID-19 theme page. The individual theme pages not only list key data sets on the selected topic, but they also allow users to view all the data related to this topic within the data catalog by just clicking the View All Data button. In this example, the yellow arrow points on the View All Data button for the COVID-19 data theme. You can also navigate and select the View button next to the key data sets of your selected theme, which will take you directly to the individual study page. On our example, you can see that if you click the View button for the first key data set listed in this section, which is the Business Insights and Conditions Survey, this will take you directly to its catalog page. There, you will be able to find details for this specific data set, all its relevant documentation, such as data dictionaries, variable lists and user guides. We will see more on the second part of the webinar about that and a lot of further resources and examples of how these data sets have been used. On the second part of our webinar, we will also provide you further information on the exact details that can be found on a catalog study, on a page of a study in our catalog. Before we return to Mentimeter and to an activity we have prepared for you, so to practice finding data, we would like to present to you a set of useful tools which are designed to support your research and explore the data held in our collection. A very useful tool to explore survey data is the Variable and Question Bank. This tool allows you to find and retrieve information about variables and questions from a range of survey data sets that we hold in UK data service. Similar to the previous tool, you can find, you can directly access this tool by selecting the help button along the top tool bar of our website and then scrolling down to section searching for data and variable and question bank. You can use this tool to identify which survey data sets contain the questions or variables that you are interested in. A key benefit of the Variable and Question Bank is that you can find consistency and cross data sets, for examples where harmonized or common variables have been used over time across different economic and social surveys. Each variable record provides a link to a more information page about the specific item. The Variable and Question Bank contains at the moment over 450,000 variables with over 250,000 containing question responses and text responses. You can enter your search term into the search box and you can click the Go button. You can also combine search terms with the filters which are present on the left-hand side. In this example, we have searched for the highest educational qualification, so searching for variable, highest educational qualification. And we can see that this has turned us thousands of results. From the results and in order to view a single variable record on one page, all we have to do is click on the variable name and the label which is marked in red. We can also compare variables, so in order to do that, we can choose Add to My Variables. Next, of course, to the result we are interested in and then select the My Variables basket at the top right of the page. Variables can be compared side by side, as we will see on our example. So here, as you can see, we have searched the variable, what is the highest level of education and qualification. And we are comparing one result which comes from the survey Opinions and Lifestyle Survey and a different result which comes from the Northern Island Life and Time Survey. This is a very useful tool to compare, but also to highlight that, for example, the way it is structured, we see that the response other. So my highest qualification is other. The reply is here recorded on response number eight, where other on the way the variable was used in this survey was recorded as response number seven. Perfect. And turning next, we will also have a look at the Qualibank. Its name mentions it already. This tool is the UK data services search and browse interface for qualitative data objects, which will allow us to search the content of text files, such as interviews, essays, open-ended questions and reports. Similar to the previous tools we have already covered, you can directly access Qualibank by selecting the Help button on the top toolbar, searching for data and searching Qualibank. In this example, we have searched for the term poverty and we can see that the results return us a lot of 146 results where poverty was mentioned as part of interview transcripts, interview summaries, reports, essays, as well as a web resource. Each results provides a direct link to the catalog page of the qualitative data set that this information relates to, of course. Our purple arrow on this slide is pointing directly on this link. Like with other sex functions in the website, the Qualibank results can also be filtered further in order to narrow our search. Some of the available options are resource type, as we can see on our screen, dates or the collection title. Thank you very, very much for your attention up to this stage of our workshop. Here we will kindly ask you to please return to Mentimeter by following the instructions that we will bring up again on the slide. It is the same code, the same access, we will bring it in case somebody has lost access to it. And here we are, we can see the same instructions menti.com and we can use the code 45046752 or directly the QR code on a second device or on another tab. At any moment of the presentation you see on the top of the screen the link and the code again if you have missed it. Before we go to the activity, just a quick question. We would like to ask you, that's a free text question, what topic or data type is what you are interested in. So what is the topic or data type so we can have an understanding about what will be your search into. Thank you very much. We see already some answers coming, health inequalities, health care, health and social care, census data, personal finance, health data, health medical and veterinary, data on deaths in a region by demographics, tourism, census data again, poverty, child health, historic census, data relating to crime, but a particular economics education and health, health care and census data. We see that health care are at the moment very popular. Thank you very much. So if we can turn next to our activity, we will allocate you five minutes so you can practice some of the information we shared on today's webinar directly on the website. So if you can please visit www.ukdataservice.ac.uk and please you have five minutes to search for one or more if you have the time of the following data sets. We will advise you to search for a data set of your choice or if you don't have something that is on your interest or something specific in your mind, we have provided here on the screen some further examples that you can find. For example, the most recent health survey for England or census micro data, annual population survey and further on, you can feel free to use any of the above examples to search and have a look on the catalogue. After five minutes, we will return back to ask you some questions in order to how this activity went so to understand better your feedback and what we can improve on the catalogue. Thank you very, very much. We will keep this slide open and we return in five minutes. Thank you very, very much for those of you and all of you for participating in this practice. Of course, we will provide the slides and we can possibly add on the slides the activity as well so in case you would like to practice with the rest examples. Here what we would like to ask you is the question, were you able to find the data set of your interest, the data sets you were looking into? Because we are in the process of improving our catalogue, so your feedback will be very valuable for us to see what we can improve. Thank you very, very much for the responses. Happy to see that 100% of the moment of the people that search and participate in the activity have found what they are looking. I will keep it couple of seconds more and then we can go to some open text section. Yes, so for you that were not able to find the data sets, of course, we will keep going with this workshop and through our guides, we will support you in always finding what you are looking for. Let's move to our next question please. Another question, if you were not able to find what you were looking for, why not? What was the issue that you faced, the challenges that you faced that will again provide us very valuable feedback in improving our catalogue search. Yes, I understand that to find, yes, that might be the accessing reason. Of course, we will go through, my colleague Daniel Spence is now in the second part, we'll go through the safeguarding data sets and how we can access them. I found the data set but couldn't open it. Indeed, we will go through now how to access, which is the second part of our workshop. It says it's good that many of you have been aware of what is available. Thank you for your feedback thrown by login prompts. Okay, yes. Of course, if you don't mind please, you can after the webinar to contact us on our help desk to let us know more information. Census MicroData had to work out which one to look at. So many health survey for England, safeguarded. Perfect. Thank you very, very much for your responses and using hazardous returns, significant increase in number of results. Of course, that was an issue that you faced. Yes. Thank you. And if we may go to our next question, what in your opinion will make it easier to find what you are looking for, what you would like to see improved in the catalogue? More obvious. Thank you. A larger number of themes and topics to be divided further in topics, yes. Not to be so wide. Of course, any ideas for improvements, feel free to contact us again through any channel. We will communicate the channel at the end of the workshop so you can get in contact, increase number of themes. Yes, I see that the themes are a lot and expand topics similar. Thank you. Thank you very, very much for your contribution. Of course, feel free to contact us through any channel to provide us your suggestions, the audience and the reason we do all we do is to support research and giving easier access to the data. Turning next, I will now hand over to my colleague Daniel Spence. He will take over for the second part of his workshop to see how we can access the data we have searched and find through our catalogue. Daniel, do you want to go? Yes. Thank you so much for delivering the first part of this workshop and to Emma and Jill for organising it and everything. My name is Spence. I'm going to be covering the back half of the presentation with sections 2 and 3, how to access data and some useful tools. Hopefully, in the last activity, you had a chance to find some data. I know a couple of you didn't, so don't worry. We're going to go into more detail and hopefully solve some of those issues for you. We're going to go through access conditions for some of the most common types of access conditions, creating an account, navigating the catalogue a little bit more. Lastly, we're going to give you some practical hands-on advice with how to actually apply for data once you've found something you want to look for. Firstly, the data access policy. Data is deposited in different ways, depending on the level of risk, and this is decided with the data owner. We've got controlled data. This is often referred to as secure access data. It's one of the most restrictive data types. It's only accessed through the secure lab at fixed terminals, and we've got safeguarded data. This is probably one of our most common data types. This encompasses end user licence data, which just requires a registration or special licence data where you fill in a form and the data owner has to give permission. We've got reshare data, which is self-deposited data. There's a lot of economic social research funded data. If people are doing small projects or perhaps you want to deposit your thesis, all sorts of stuff like that. Access controls or conditions vary massively on this, so we'll go into a bit more detail on that next. Lastly, open data. This is available for everyone without any barriers or registration required. Open data. Going into a bit more detail of this, there's very minimal risk or no risk of disclosure, no registrations required. Occasionally, it might ask you to do a click-through acknowledgement just to say that you're not going to use data, let's say commercially, or you're going to cite the data correctly if you're using it in, let's say, an article. Next up, we've got reshare. Reshare is an online repository. Economic social research council data has to be deposited with us, but it doesn't have to be ESRC funded research as anyone can use it. So there's a wide variety of different topics in there. The access conditions, as I mentioned, are non-standard, so one example I came across recently. The data is so sensitive that it cannot actually be deposited. You have to go directly to the researcher to apply to access it just because there's ethical and legal concerns there. A quick way to tell if a study is reshare or not is that the study number will be in the 80,000s, whereas studies in our main catalogue, they only go up to the 9,000 so far. I'll show you that a little bit more once we go hands-on with the catalogue. Next up, we've got safeguarded data. As I mentioned, this splits into two areas. You've got the end user license data. You just have to register with the UK data service in most cases, and it will be available to download immediately. So it's not too much of a barrier. There is a minimal risk of disclosure, but it's considered low enough that a wide variety of people can access it. The second is special license data, where you actually have to apply for this and justify it. So the data is also anonymized, like end-user license data, but it contains more detailed information. Perhaps there'd be geographical data, like a lower super output area, which can narrow it down to quite a small geographic area. So the data owner is going to be looking to see, do you need this? Why do you need it? Does it line up with your research questions? That sort of thing. One thing to bear in mind with special license, because you have to fill in that form. We like to get it in a good shape. So it has a good chance of being approved first time before it goes to the data owner. So this can take a few weeks to get the paperwork right, and then the data owner can take a few weeks to decide as well. So do plan ahead when you're applying for special license. Lastly, we have controlled data. So this is often referred to as secure access data as well. So you access this through SecureLab. It may contain disclosive information to access SecureLab. You have to nominate a fixed terminal, perhaps at your office or on campus. Throughout the pandemic, there was an acknowledgment that accessed offices is limited. So home working has been made available on some studies. You have to apply and get permission from the data owner to do that. And there may be additional technical checks on your devices, just to make sure that they're safe to do so. You can also apply access SecureLab through the SafePod network, which are located all up and down the country, typically in university libraries, but there's also some other institutions to have them. Access to SecureLab is limited to experienced or accredited researchers. So something to bear in mind is that it's typically only accessed through the UK, but it can also be accessed through a small number of European institutions. There's a few institutions around Germany, France, I think the Netherlands as well, through the International Data Access Network. This is just because the data has such an increased risk of disclosure. When you access it through SecureLab, you never actually download the data. You log in, perform your analysis, and then you request your outputs. Say you've built some tables and charts. Our user support team actually has to check that and make sure it's safe to go out under the FiveSafes framework. A very, very small number of studies are also safe through only. So this requires a visit to Colchester in Essex. This is just because there's an even greater risk of disclosure. We've physically checked that you're not taking a phone in to the room. You are who you say you are. Next up, we're going to do how to register. Most of our researchers are in the UK. Most of them are within UK higher education. So we have two methods to register. So if you're at UK college or university and have your own email address and password, you can probably create an account instantly. You can have this. Let's say you are at one of these institutions, your IT help desk or library may be able to assist you with this. So the page was redesigned last year, but basically if you're at UK university, some colleges, some UK government departments, a very small number of local authorities, you can get that account through Open Athens or Shibboleth. For everyone else, let's say you're an international researcher, a think tank, a school, a personal researcher or in the commercial sector, you'll need to request a UK data archive username. So I'm just going to do a quick live demo of this for you. Okay, so this is our homepage and up in the top left-hand side, we have the login button. Within this login page, if you are at UK higher education institution, you can use this. For instance, you can type in Glasgow. You can see there's a variety of institutions there. Got a bunch of colleges, the Office for National Statistics and the Office for Students. So we've got a small number of councils here. So I'm based at University of Essex. So when I click through and log in here, it's going to take me to my University of Essex login. So for you, you should hopefully see a familiar login page. So if you are with one of these international organizations, we'll have an option for you as well. So we'll go through that process. So you click the login button at the top here and you go to my organization is not listed and you'll have to request a username. So once again, you'll need to click my organization is not listed again and then you can put in your email address. So I've got UK data service user at hotmail.com as an example. It's going to send me a code. It doesn't look like it's coming through, but basically once you type in your one-time code in here, it'll ask you for your login details. So I have written down a few bits and bobs. So it will request your name and address. We expect you to register with your work or student email address where available. You can set a discipline, which helps us understand a little bit more about our users. As a brief note on user type, you can list yourself as a commercial user. This doesn't exclude you from conducting non-commercial research or participating in non-commercial projects, but you should list yourself based on your relationship with that organization. So one example we have often come up is people in the transport sector subcontracting for a local authority. So they're a commercial transport organization, but they're doing a non-commercial public benefit project for that local council. The requirement of registering a UK data service account is that you agree to our end user license agreement, which is at the bottom of the form. If you're not sure about this, we have a guide on our help page as well. So if you're coming back to this in a few weeks and you've forgotten this, but there's a pretty comprehensive guide on the website. It does take a few days for us to screen and approve these accounts. So please do bear with us while we work on that. So next up, we're going to do a few more live demonstrations. We're going to find a study in the catalogue. We're going to access some end user license data. We're going to try applying for some special license data. And we're going to have a look at the process for secure access data as well. So this is the catalogue page. So this is what it looks like. I'm just going to drag over another window so we can do this demo live. So we're going to have a look at, let's say we're looking at a labor force survey. So we want to search for labor and we're going to filter this down because there's so many results. We're going to go to 2022 and refine data. So quarterly labor force survey, 9452 is the study number. This one's pretty recent. So we'll have a look at applying for this. We'll just go over the details tab very briefly so you get some metadata here about it. It's a safeguarded study. One thing to bear in mind is within the title it doesn't mention special or secure, which sort of indicates that it's likely to be end user license data or open data. Down the bottom here, we've got some additional details. We've got a lot of data, citations. If you're writing an essay, you can build a citation for it. There's copyright details. There's a broad topic theme. The HACCP Phasaurus is very comprehensive. So somebody mentioned previously that you got a lot of results. It's just because some surveys are incredibly comprehensive. So you might need to add multiple keyword searches. There's a bit of an abstract about the background of the survey. There's also a survey that's gone on for many years. Coverage and methodology gives you some idea of how many cases there are, the types it was, the timeframe, and yeah. There's addition history as well. So one thing to bear in mind is some studies will just keep updating the same study number. So for instance, understanding society will do a new survey wave every year or two and they'll roll it all into one study. Whereas with this study series, it's one addition typically one addition per release and they do one per quarter. So I'm just going to briefly show you the series link as well. So this, if you click through, shows you all the studies within the labor force surveys. This is a really useful tool. You can see there's so many different streams and you can see there's secure access ones as well as induced license types. So we'll just go back to our study and adding this to our account. So we'll click the access data up in the top right and we'll need to log in. So I'm going to do that now. I'm based at University of Essex so it's likely going to remember who I am and log me in automatically just because I'm on a University of Essex computer right now. But for you, you might have to log in. So we're going to get some access data terms and it says you must agree to the end-use license agreement. So we're going to add this to our account and we've added it to account. So you can see up here, it's in our basket. We click through to that. It takes us to our account view and we'll need to go to data and we can see here it's a weighting assignment to a project. So we can tick add to project here and we're going to create a new project for this so I can show you this. This is the same thing and accessing workshop March 2023. I'm going to choose a project type. So here you can choose what type of data it is. This one is a noncommercial project you need to write an abstract. Ideally you put in as much detail as you can as is available. One thing that's not very helpful is if you just write my thesis και γιατί είμαι υπηρεσμένης σε αυτό το data. Ναι... Εφαίρευτο να τα διαφάνω με κόσμοι συμβήματα που έκανε το ίδιο ανθρώπιιο Τιό που πήρισα. Είναι myproject. Τιό που μου παραγγείται… και είναι καλύτερη για να μοιάζουμε. Από το existingProject να πούμε σε όλα. Γιατί είμαστε τμένα παραγγείτε, μαςνύειλει σοκδεσμünkü να σημαίνει το εύκολο του προσχέκτητα.組P samo, ο βραδεδικός επειδή δημοζοποιήσετε τα ενεργία. τελειώσεις και διεχνάτων. Η διεχνάτων είναι προσπαθεί σε τρύχες φορματές. Έχουμε σπίσες, θέτα και τάμπ. Και πάνω να κλειώσεις το διεχνάτων, είναι έτοιμο, το τάμπ είναι πολύ αυτοίσχο, όταν αλλιώς εγώ βαθίστε στην Excel. Υπάρχει και θα πάμε στος προχέστημα. Και το 23η, τελειώσεις. Πολύ αυτό was my demo one. Αυτό είναι, να αρχίσει να ξεχνάς. για να ξεκινήσουμε. Και επόμενος, θα έχουμε ένα μονογραφικό δημιουργείο. Βέβαια, θα πάμε στον δημιουργείο. Νομίζω ότι αυτό είναι το καλύτερο τρόπο να δούμε αυτό. Λοιπόν, θα πάμε στο παιχνίδι της UKDate Service Homepage. Θα έχουμε ένα μονογραφικό δημιουργείο 693-1. Είναι ένα από τις πιο πολύμερικές δημιουργείες μας. Είναι η κατασκευγή της κοινωνικής κοινωνίας, Waves 12. Και είναι η πραγματική κοινωνική παιχνίδη. Βέβαια, έχουμε ένα μονογραφικό δημιουργείο από 91 μέχρι το 2021. Βέβαια, θα δούμε. Έχουμε ένα μονογραφικό δημιουργείο που δεν είχα μόνο το τρόπο. Είναι το δημιουργείο τρόπο. Βέβαια, εδώ έχουμε πολλές εξαιρετικές δημιουργείες που βοηθούνται, αν είναι κάτι που θέλεις να προσπαθεί. Δεν είναι καλύτερο να προσπαθεί για κάτι που θέλεις. Και να το διδάξει και να γνωρίζει ότι δεν είναι πολύ το οποίο θέλεις. Ε vowels, τι πουώ. Να δούμε, is turned-up, you have to parent-on, you can type in and it goes on as well, Όταν εργάζεται as a team, you need to produce supplyers with a form for each researcher with their details in here. You've got a full list of the research team, including the project lead ideally, so the depositor can have a look and see, okay, there's four people on this project. The location where you access the data, so typically this is going to be your office location on an institutionally managed device. Οπότε είναι like, say you work in the department of sociology at UCL, you can be listed in the building and potentially the office as well. Type of research projects that should be matching your UK data service projects. You can update it if you know, narrowed in your your research as time has gone on, just let us know. Abstracts. You can be talking about what you're going to do. Αυτό είναι μια ευκαιρία για να δείξουμε ποιος είναι οι δεύτερες οικονομιστικούς που κάνετε αυτή τη διεθνότητα. Σεξιον 5 είναι οικονομιστικός. Μπορείτε να μιλήσετε μεθαδολογία. Σεξιον 7, μπορείτε να λυθείτε τη διεθνότητα. Σεξιον 6, 9, 3, 1. Και το τελευταίο τελευταίο από το ΚΑΛΑΚ. Σεξιον 8, μπορείτε να διεθνότητατε γιατί χρειαζόμαστε σε αυτό. trust you but you really need to make a strong argument, so you need to be talking about why you can't do this study and can't do this research project with available data. So for instance with understanding society there is an induced licence equivalent data set which has less information. So. αν μπορείτε να προσφαλήσεις δύο σπιστικές σπίτι μεταξύ των εξαιρωνία. Υπάρχει μια να διαφασιώσει αυτή η διεθνή. Είναι το σκόντι που η ενθυσμότητα δεν υπάρχει. Υπάρχει να διαφασιώσει αυτή τη διεθνή. Σερίς 9, αν πρέπει να σημαίνεις αυτοπιστική διεθνή, πιστεύεις να κάνεις ένας διεθνή διεθνή, πιστεύεις να είναι κάτι που δεν είναι στο καταλόγραμμα, μπορεί να μιλάτε εδώ. Ρεθαίνει το 10ο τρόπο – εσύ μπορείς να μιλάς πώς την πρόγραμμα θα είναι σας στις χημοτικές μόνες﹌ τη μόνη στις χρονών. One thing we do like you to bear in mind at this stage though is planning ahead for any delays. If you're doing a peer reviewed article, there can be delays to that. The peer reviewer may want to really interrogate your analysis and that can cause delays. So do plan ahead for that. It's easier to make your project longer than it is to get an extension later on, but we can do that as well. Outputs, it can be sort of whatever you're planning on doing, so you might be talking about a peer review article, reports, tables, chapters, presentations, conferences, that sort of thing. 12 is an opportunity to talk about the risk. So some data runners have a really keen eye that any tables you have with less than five outputs, less than five respondents in an area, they'd want you to zero that out. The research data handling guidelines gives more information on that sort of thing. Measures in place to protect the data. So you want to be talking about your technical security. Is the office going to be locked? Who has access? Are you using two-factor authentication on your network drives? If you're saving the data locally, that sort of thing. You could talk about whether your research has been funded. And then lastly, these are just terms and conditions of the data. You need to tick all of this. At present, you do need to provide a non-type signature and date the form with your name and everything. Unfortunately, we are working on improving this form. So if you're applying in the next few months, you may find that this form has changed a little bit. The idea is that we're just going to have one form for the lead researcher, then a small appendix for additional researchers. So it's a little bit less work for the researchers. And then once you send that to us, we go through to the data owner and we try to obtain permission for them on your behalf. We act as the main contact link between the researcher and the data owner. So yeah, next up. And I just want to talk about group projects as well, because this can be a little bit difficult. I think the best way to go about it is for the project lead to set up the project on the UK Data Service website. You add the studies that you want for this project. At this stage, you invite researchers to the project, which I'll show you how to do in a second. The project lead downloads the form and fills in as much as they can. And then cascades a copy of that to each researcher and the team. And then everyone feeds that back to the lead researcher and the lead researcher emails it all to us. We just find that this works a lot smoother than having to chase people to get things signed properly or if there's a minor difference between the form after the fact. Similarly, once the project's approved, it's easier to get everyone on board from day one than it is to keep adding people every few weeks. So let's have a look at secure data next. So for this one, we're going to have a look at study number 6697. So we'll go back to the homepage again and I'll start going through this a little bit quicker. So this is a secure data access study. So this has secure access at the end and you can see it's controlled. So we'll access here, scroll down. So we've got a few more times. You can see you have to be a accredited researcher. And yeah, so we'll add that to our account. So we'll go up to our basket, data, tick that, add to project, add to an existing project. We've got the short one for March. Okay, great. So this one 6697, when we click request access, you can see the prerequisites are much greater here. So we'll click complete actions. So you'll need to complete a research application project, research application. This is much more in-depth. You can have to talk about the FX as well in this section. You can have to obtain DEA Digital Economy Act accredited researcher status because the data is more disclosive. This is about proving that you're trustworthy and that you've conducted adequate training to handle this sort of data. You're gonna need to complete a secure access user agreement. This is somebody signing on behalf at your organization. So it could be like a head of department or somebody at the contracts office at the university who's saying they're happy for you to complete this research. We'll go to the depositor. You'll also need to complete some specific training. So if you've trained elsewhere, perhaps at the ONS, you can do a short course just to familiarize yourself with secure lab. If you do safe research or training with the UK data service, it's all sort of bundled into one there. And then yeah, I think the thing to really bear in mind is it can take a long time, several months particularly, if it's your first time applying for this to get all the training and paperwork done. But yeah, just a note about how to invite people to your project. You can just click new member here. You invite them by email. So if they're registered to the UK data service, they'll just get an email invite. Okay, so next up, we're gonna have a look at some useful resources and online tools. So we've got Nestar, UKDS.STAT, Infuse. We'll also talk about the upcoming features we've got for the most recent UK census. So Nestar can be found from the Find Data tab. And then you'll need to scroll down to browse by general, click online the analysis tools, and it'll take you through to this page. So we're gonna hop out and do another live demonstration. Okay, so another quick and easy way to do it is to go to help, scroll down to exploring data, online tools, exploring survey data, and Nestar is right here. So Nestar is quite an old tool. It's End of Life as of 2022. So just as sort of a full warning, it's provided on a NASA's basis. We do get a lot of queries about it, about how it's not working. Often this is due to the browser. So you really need to use Firefox for this. And if you're accessing the end user license data from this research data sets section, you need to log in at the top here on the top right before doing any tabulation. We find that this solves the majority of issues. For this demo, I'm just gonna use an unrestricted data set. We're gonna go down to unrestricted research and we'll have a look at the British election study. We'll look at 2010 face-to-face and you can drill into variable description. We'll do post-elections and political interests. You can have a look at this. You can look at the question and the results and say, okay, I'd like to do some tabulation on this. Then what you can do on the column here, you can click add to row and this will populate this tabulation for you and then we can drag down and we'll say, okay, we're gonna have a look at how this compares to people who have views on Europe. So we'll have a look at membership in the European Union and add that to the column. So we're building out a table now and this is really useful for teaching. We recognize that if you're teaching in class, you don't want to have to waste time getting everyone to sign up and download the data. This is really useful to use in browser so you can sort of quickly go in and do from the tabulation, you can build a chart, start looking at this and it's just really handy to do quick analysis and particularly within, there's boatloads of studies in here. So yeah, hopefully you find that useful. Next up, we're gonna have a look at UKDS.STAP. So this one is for international macro data. I'll be honest, it was super, super complicated for me to have a look at but it allows you to sort of build these charts within a web interface as well. One thing to bear in mind though is that the international energy agency data is only available at present to UK academics in higher education. So most of the other data sets are open so anyone can go in and have a look at this stuff. Next up, we've got Infuse. So we'll do a quick live demo for this one as well. So Infuse is really good for census data. So we've got the 2011 and 2001 one at the moment. So we'll have a look at 2011 and geography. So you can drill down quite a lot by regions. So let's have a look at focus on Essex for this one and we'll add that and we'll go next. So we're gonna have a look at health for this one. So we'll select health as our option and it gives us a little breakdown of what this is and where it appeared in the survey in the census rover. And we're gonna have a look at general health. So we'll have a look at all of these, we'll add them and click next. And then at this stage, we can sort of start building our heat maps to look at how does health vary over Essex. Are there particular hotspots where health is really bad or are there any trends? You can do that sort of analysis and just click and download data, it's ready to go. So one thing to bear in mind as well with this is we often get a lot of questions about the most recent census. So there is another website that is sort of working progress at the moment. So we've got statistics.ukdataservice.ac.uk. So we came across this one this week. So we have got the 2022 and 2021 census in here as well. So you can go into data sets and this is where you will access the more recent stuff. From what I understand, there is gonna be a tool that lets you do infuse-style analysis with the most recent data set, but I'm not sure if it's gonna be built into infuse or whether that's gonna be a totally new interface. So please keep your eyes onukdataservice channels for more information on that. So yeah, getting in touch in FAQs. So on our Contact Us page, we often find that a lot of our common questions that can be answered by just having a look at the help pages. So please do have a look through these first before contacting us. If you don't have any luck finding what you're looking for, you can contact our helpdesk. Our preferred method is through the helpdesk web form. This just means that we can capture the relevant information related to your query and get it to the right team first. If you've got technical issues, we have a form specifically for that. Again, it's about capturing that information so our technical team don't have to come back and ask you more questions. So we've got a mailing address and telephone number if you wanna give us a call and we're also open to feedback as well as that goes through to our comms team. Upcoming events, I've just highlighted a few of these. So we've got safe researcher training. If you've got a secure lab application in progress and you're moving ahead with it, Tuesday the 11th, 10 to 1.30, it might be great for you. How to become a computational social scientist is on Tuesday the 18th of April. This one looked really interesting to me particularly because it doesn't require any coding experience. They've really designed it for beginners. And data management basics, this is on 27th of April on a Thursday. And that is the first in a two-part webinar on data management basics. If you're perhaps looking at conducting your own research and you need some guidance on best practices. So if none of those are any good or you're busy on all of those dates, we do have more events and we have a really helpful calendar on our events page just to wrap things up then. So thank you very much for coming. I think it's been a really great attendance and it's really nice to see so much enthusiasm. So again, we've got the contact us form if you had any questions that weren't covered. We've got email. So if you need to email us something like one of the forms that I mentioned in the previous application steps, you can email help at ukdataservice.ac.uk. So we're on Twitter if you wanna keep up to date with various things across the service. We've got a YouTube channel where there's loads of videos and recordings. And lastly, we've got a mailing list which is on Giskmail and data impact vlog which talks about various work done across the UK data service. Thank you very much, Spence, Emma Gill and everybody who attended this webinar today. Anything you need, yes, through our helpdesk form we will be happy to help you.