The ELSA data are being used to
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:55 am
The millions of pounds invested in data collections like ELSA are best used to generate data that a wide range of academic, policy and lay analysts can get their hands on. provide evidence on a wide range of issues — locally, nationally, internationally, short- and long-term — because they are accessible (as well as high quality). A recent IFS working paper exploring how the 2008-09 financial downturn affected older households in England is just one rich example.
Of course academics typically design data iran rcs data collections to address our particular research concerns. If we plan for wider use we must understand and design for others, and to do this we need to involve a broad constituency. For ELSA this has meant consulting with a wide range of disciplines and with policy analysts in a number of sectors, but also consulting internationally so a cross-national research agenda could be supported. A by-product of designing for a wide constituency and making data easily accessible is that our data outputs may be used by academic rivals, but to do otherwise would be wasteful. The longstanding social sciences culture of sharing data – making data accessible and usable – is one to value and one that is at the heart of the UK Data Service.
ethnicity map
This is clearly demonstrated in the work we plan for CoDE. A central theme in our work is the proposition that the changing ways in which ethnicity is categorised reflect changing meanings of ethnicity – which identities become relevant in particular periods and contexts, why they are relevant, and how they are lived and racialised – and changing patterns of inequality.
Of course academics typically design data iran rcs data collections to address our particular research concerns. If we plan for wider use we must understand and design for others, and to do this we need to involve a broad constituency. For ELSA this has meant consulting with a wide range of disciplines and with policy analysts in a number of sectors, but also consulting internationally so a cross-national research agenda could be supported. A by-product of designing for a wide constituency and making data easily accessible is that our data outputs may be used by academic rivals, but to do otherwise would be wasteful. The longstanding social sciences culture of sharing data – making data accessible and usable – is one to value and one that is at the heart of the UK Data Service.
ethnicity map
This is clearly demonstrated in the work we plan for CoDE. A central theme in our work is the proposition that the changing ways in which ethnicity is categorised reflect changing meanings of ethnicity – which identities become relevant in particular periods and contexts, why they are relevant, and how they are lived and racialised – and changing patterns of inequality.