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An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9491 Understanding Society: Waves 1-15, 2009-2024: Special Licence Access, Census 2021 Rural-Urban Indicators SN 9490 Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2024 – September, 2025 SN 9489 Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, January 2024 – March, 2025 SN […]

The UK Data Service is excited to announce the publication of a new impact case study exploring how the design of survey questions shapes what we know about public attitudes towards climate change. As climate change becomes an increasingly urgent and politically charged issue, understanding public opinion is critical for shaping effective policy. Surveys are […]

How can early career researchers turn their findings into real-world change? On Wednesday 11 February 2026, the UK Data Service will host a unique event at the People’s History Museum in Manchester to explore exactly that. Perspectives on Engagement and Impact is designed to help researchers connect with peers and stakeholders and learn directly from […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9479 Integrated Multimedia City Data, 2015: Secure Access SN 852494 Open Research: Practices, Experiences, Barriers and Opportunities, 2016 SN 858163 Modelling the Cross-Linguistic Pattern of Verb-Marking Deficits in Children With Developmental Language Disorder, 2019-2025 SN 858165 Generative Confidants: How do […]

The UK Data Service has released a new film that explains the value of its key services to researchers around the world and how it supports their work to make positive changes to people’s lives. With over 10,000 datasets in our collection, we help over 52,000 researchers worldwide to drive impactful social and economic research. […]

Read the full stories in our UK Data Service Newsletter – Winter 2025. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we highlight a major update to our Data Catalogue. The new catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core and we hope it will make finding and working with data faster […]

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is available in fifteen languages: Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. The November 2025 release of ELSST (Version 6) includes revisions to the demography hierarchy and related terms. […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9477 Scottish Election Study, 2024 SN 9478 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2024 SN 9462 Scotland’s Census 2022: Safeguarded Individual Microdata Sample at Grouped Local Authority Level SN 9461 Scotland’s Census 2022: Safeguarded Individual Microdata Sample at Region Level SN 9470 […]

The UK Data Service has hit a significant milestone in its history, with the number of data collections we make available reaching the 10,000 mark. Over the past six decades, the UK Data Service and its forerunners have supported research by simplifying findability and access to social, economic and population data. Our data collections include […]

We were pleased to join forces with the team at CLOSER again this year to produce another informative podcast featuring several high-profile experts from the world of data, including our own Director, Dr Steve McEachern. In this new production, we explore how research data can be used by government policymakers to make positive influences to […]

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award for the 2025-26 academic year. The award recognises undergraduate social science dissertations that include excellent reuse of data. UK Data Service resources for students Undergraduate students can access data from our catalogue once they have registered with their institutional login. The data […]

Do you conduct crime research using quantitative surveys or longitudinal studies from the UK Data Service, such as the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, and many more? Submissions are now open for the Crime Surveys User Conference 2026. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration […]