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PPRU Surveys of Disability, 1989-1990
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The surveys were commissioned to provide information about disability for use in planning policies and services.
The aims of the surveys were to:
estimate the prevalence of disability among adults and children in Northern Ireland;
assess the circumstances under which people with disabilities live;
provide...
Family Expenditure Survey Follow-up Survey of Disabled Adults, 1986-1987
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this survey was to analyse and compare the income and expenditure patterns of households containing a disabled adult with other households. To provide a comparative measure of the extra costs of disability to complement the subjective measures used in the OPCS Survey of Disabled Adults in...
Deprived White Community? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1940-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
The project charted changes since 1940 in the interface between official descriptions of three Norwich council estates (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) as deprived, and residents' own social and spatial identity practices.
It looked critically at the extent to...
Inventing Adulthoods, 1996-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Inventing Adulthoods (IA) archive currently consists of qualitative interview transcripts for 30 young people interviewed up to six times. Transcripts for a further 20 young people will be included in the archive in the near future. Inventing Adulthoods is a qualitative longitudinal (QL) study that...
Stockholm Birth Cohort
The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC) was created in 2004/2005 by a probability matching of two anonymized longitudinal datasets; The Stockholm Metropolitan study and The Swedish Work and Mortality Database (WMD). The former involves all children born 1953 that lived in the Stockholm metropolitan area as of November 1, 1963, while the latter comprises data for the period...
USA TRACOR Aircraft Noise Studies, 1967-1969
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To measure reactions of people to levels of aircraft noise in residential areas.Main Topics:Variables
Both social surveys and physical aircraft noise measurement programmes were carried out. The social surveys measured the effects of the aircraft noise on people's lives and characteristics of people which...
Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care, 2001-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This qualitative study focused on vulnerable families with child care problems who did not receive social work support. It examined the ways mothers, who generally take primary responsibility for care of their children, cope with child care problems without this support.
The researchers interviewed 99...
Measurement and Valuation of Health, 1989
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Comparison of health state valuation methods to establish which of the available valuation/scaling methods would be the best to use in the next major study. To establish which descriptive system should be used. To partially replicate Rosser's earlier work.Main Topics:Variables
Health state valuation;...
Cultural Context of Youth Suicide: Identity, Gender and Sexuality, 2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project explored how young people think about suicide and self-harm.
Specifically, it considered how young people's understandings of how distress relating to gender identity or sexuality could lead to suicide. It adopted a discourse analytic approach, understanding that suicidal behaviour becomes...
Class and Ethnicity: Polish Migrant Workers in London, 1996-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The study examines recent Polish migrations to London and the socio-cultural consequences for Poland and the UK as well as individual narratives about ethnicity, class, migration and multicultural Britain.
This dataset consists of 57 qualitative, semi-structured face-to-face interviews with Polish...
Precarious lives: Asylum seekers and refugees' experiences of forced labour.
The overall aim of this research is to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees (AS/R) based in England.
This new evidence base will contribute to ongoing academic and policy debates on the causes of, and solutions to, forced labour in the UK among AS/R.
The research focuses on a group of migrants whose...
Interpreting the Local Politics of Social Inclusion, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project seeks to understand the local politics of social exclusion through analysis of the meanings attached to terms such as social exclusion and inclusion. The objective is to compare and contrast central and local discourses of social exclusion, thereby determining the extent to which local...