Coming soon to the SRS
Management and Expectation Survey (MES)
The MES collects information from businesses in both the services and production industries about their management practices and expectations for their business in the future. Information on management practices includes businesses usual practices regarding the use of targets, key performance indicators (KPI’s), employment and hiring decisions and their culture of continuous improvement among others. The survey also aims to collect information on businesses current performance, and future expectations, about turnover, investment, employment and spending on resources.
Family Magistrates dataset
A de-duplicated dataset relating to people involved in Family Court cases being processed by the Family Courts in England and Wales. This includes all areas of family justice including public and private law cases; matrimonial matters (e.g. divorces, annulments and separations); financial remedy (formerly known as ancillary relief); domestic violence remedy orders; forced marriage protection orders; female genital mutilation protection orders; adoption; The Mental Capacity Act and Probate.
ONS Saferooms re-opening
From Monday 13 September we will be re-opening our newly refurbished ONS SRS Saferooms and look forward to welcoming you back.
A small number of data owners have indicated that, once ONS Saferooms re-open, access to their datasets should revert to the saferoom environment only. This will only affect a very limited number of datasets (and therefore projects).
SRS teams are working with data owners to confirm their preferences and we will contact you directly if access arrangements for your project need to change.
Funding opportunity: ADR UK taking applications for GRading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) Research Fellowships
Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) are accepting applications for 12-month Research Fellowships to conduct analysis using newly available GRading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE), to understand the impacts of summer 2020 awarding approaches on students and schools.
The deadline to apply is 17:00 on 1 December 2021.
On 30 September they are holding a an online applicant workshop for those who want to learn more about this funding opportunity.
Sign up on the Eventbrite page.
ADR UK secures £90m funding extension as Government plans better use of data |
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The administrative data initiative that transforms researchers’ access to the UK’s wealth of public sector data to help solve social and economic issues will continue for a further five years.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest over £90 million in ADR UK enabling it to ensure policy-relevant data linking and research projects across the UK can continue.
ADR UK played a pivotal role in the pandemic through its investment in trusted research environments across the UK including our Secure Research Service and the SAIL Databank. These trusted research environments acquired data and made it available for approved, secure research that was vital to the pandemic response across the UK.
Visit the ADR UK website for more information.
New £2m funding call for advanced analytics into COVID-19 |
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Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) have launched a new programme to help encourage new secure health data research as part of the COVID-19 Data and Connectivity National Core Study which they lead in partnership with ONS.
Visit the HDR UK website for more information.
Report: Local Data Spaces pilot study
Findings from the ADR UK-funded Local Data Spaces pilot study demonstrate the importance of secure, supported access to local-level administrative data to inform local decision making.
Read the full report.
Research Capability 2021 - Wednesday 13 October
Our upcoming Research Capability conference is now sold out.
If you would like to be added to our reserve list for a ticket please let us know.
Alternatively, if you are booked on but can no longer attend, please cancel your order on Eventbrite so we can reassign your ticket to someone on our reserve list. If you are unsure how to do this, please read the Eventbrite guidance.
For those that will be attending, you can now view the agenda for the day on our Eventbrite page.
UK Business Data User Conference
UK Business Data User Conference (UKDS) is taking place on Tuesday 21 September 9:45 - 15:45, jointly organised by the UK Data Service and ONS.
The conference will feature presentations from the UK Data Service, ONS and researchers covering the areas of business, industry, and trade, finishing with Q&A session.
For more information and to register visit the UK Data Service website.
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ONS Research Excellence Series
The ONS Research Excellence Series is back on 28 September 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00.
We are excited to welcome Dr. Gurdeep S. Mannu from the University of Oxford for a virtual presentation on his award-winning research ‘Invasive breast cancer and breast cancer mortality after ductal carcinoma in situ in women attending for breast screening in England, 1988-2014’.
Tickets will be available soon.
Dataset of the Month
Growing Up in England (GUIE) is a de-identified dataset for research, created through collaboration between the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK), and the Department for Education (DfE). The dataset links 2011 Census data with the feasibility version of All-Education Dataset for England (AEDE) – longitudinal record-level data for government-funded education in England, created from the National Pupil Database (NPD), Individualized Learner Records (ILR) and Further Education (FE) data. Around two million records were matched with 8 million households, producing a significant sample size for analysis.
GUIE enables a breadth of new research questions to be answered; questions that are much more difficult to answer using traditional data collection methods such as surveys. Areas of research that GUIE can help answer include:
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relationships between personal/familial characteristics and educational attainment
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educational outcomes for Roma, Gypsy and Traveler children and young people
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underlying drivers of geographical differences in educational attainment
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insight on children who are vulnerable or of concern by virtue of their circumstances
GUIE will allow researchers to shine a light on what is and isn’t working to support children and young people and give policymakers valuable evidence for developing services that work better for all.
The dataset will address the evidence gaps in information about the lives of vulnerable children, as identified by the Children’s Commissioner for England's 2017 review of childhood vulnerability.
A feasibility study using the linked GUIE dataset was conducted by the ONS Centre for Equalities and Inclusion, Data Linkage and Data Curation teams to test the use of the data for providing insights on personal characteristics, educational attainment, household characteristics, vulnerable groups and geography.
You can read the full report detailing the findings, published in July 2020.
In case you missed it, you can catch up on last months edition of our newsletter.
For more information please contact srs.customer.support@ons.gov.uk
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