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Latest audio podcasts: Care data: the challenges of linking health service data; Neil Serougi; 19 July 2015 Data linkage: challenges and opportunities; Peter Elias; 19 July 2015 Teaching and …
Household surveys are increasingly being linked to administrative records with the potential of greatly enriching survey content on subjects such as health, education and income. One …
While the vast majority of survey questions use fixed response options, there is a long tradition in survey research of obtaining less structured data from respondents. …
The only people who woke up on the morning of May the 8th this year feeling worse than Ed Milliband and Nick Clegg were the pollsters. …
The challenge of training future cohorts of quantitative social science researchers to secure the ‘pipeline’ from school/undergraduate study through postgraduate to postdoctoral research, depends not only …
The majority of individuals aged under twenty in the Western world were ‘born digital’ and will not recall a time without access to the Internet. Combined …
As fewer people are responding to surveys than ever before, the linking of administrative records to survey responses is a potentially important tool to obtain new, …
Social scientists may be able to connect different sets of administrative information held about people technically, but should there be any rules about accessing and using …