New ESDS Government teaching dataset

ESDS Government has produced a new teaching dataset:

The English Housing Survey 2008-2009: Household Data Teaching Dataset,

which is available at www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=6949.

The teaching dataset is a subset which has been subjected to certain simplifications and additions for the purpose of learning and teaching.

The main differences are:

·         the number of variables has been reduced
·         weighting has been simplified
·         a reduced codebook is provided

Datasets can be useful resources for teaching. You can use the datasets for hands-on exercises in methods courses such as questionnaire design or statistics. ESDS Government have created a number of teaching datasets for this purpose using the Labour Force Survey, British Crime Survey, Health Survey for England, General Household Survey and Expenditure and Food Survey. If you wish to use one of the teaching datasets or any of the ESDS Government datasets with your students as part of a taught course you should read the information on Teaching uses of data on the ESDS website at www.esds.ac.uk/orderingData/restrictions.asp