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Using data for effective health service evaluation: why we need data stewards
Richard Welpton explores what makes a good data steward and how his experience working at the UK Data Service prepared him to undertake this role successfully.
Assigning the appropriate level of protection to longitudinal survey data
Louise Corti explores the challenges of ensuring longitudinal survey data is classified appropriately for safe, non-disclosive access.
Open Data Manchester’s Declaration for responsible and intelligent data practice
The UK Data Service welcomes Open Data Manchester’s Declaration for responsible and intelligent data practice.
The sum and its parts: The benefits of combining data from different surveys
Post 1 in the series “Adventures in ex-post harmonization” Ex-post harmonization – combining data from different surveys – requires quite some effort. In this post, we explore the many reasons why...
Adventures in ex-post harmonization: Frankenstein’s Creature
A blog post series on harmonizing data from different surveys. In this series of blog posts, we will explore ex-post harmonization: the art of combining data from different surveys. In this introdu...
National Data Strategy
The UK Data Service welcomes the UK Government’s National Data Strategy. We introduce some of the key points and encourage people to contribute to the consultation.