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Pensions Online: Producer, Distributor and User Attitudes and Behaviour, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project examined the extent to which the internet can make a difference to pension industry structure, product distribution, transaction procedures and administrative processes. Key researched questions to be resolved included: what was the continued role of the independent financial advisor (IFA)...
Expenditure and Food Survey, 2005-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
Expenditure and Food Survey, 2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People, 2007-2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People, 2007-2008 assesses the use, application and role of advanced technologies in the lives of disabled people. Although disabled people are excited by the potential benefits of using new advanced technological devices at home, research has shown that one...
Living Costs and Food Survey, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
Computers and the Law: Mechanised Searching of Legal Documents, 1975-1977
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.These data are from a computer program designed to store and search the text of legal documents and to develop a small-scale working system which law students can use for practical searching in selected areas of statute and case law. The data comprise three text (.dat) files.The area of case law chosen...
WHALE-OPOLY Simulation Program, 1975; Computer Program
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this program is to demonstrate the counterproductivity of seeking personal gain at the expense of common good by using an example of whale hunting and with variables of population, birth rate, death rate, and catch rate.
Computer Survey, 1970-1971
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to investigate the use, and lack of use, of computers by social scientists.Main Topics:Variables
Department composition (number of research and academic staff, post-graduate and undergraduate students), whether desk calculators/card or paper tape equipment are used, if so -...
ICTs : Reshaping the Voluntary Sector? 1998-1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research has been shaped by the overarching aims both to begin to map the extent to which voluntary organisations are adopting Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and, more particularly, to gain insights into, and to begin to understand and to articulate, the social conditions shaping...
Northern Ireland Family Expenditure Survey, 1995-1996
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Family Expenditure Survey (NIFES) was conducted in Northern Ireland from 1967-1998, and was the counterpart to the Family Expenditure Survey (FES), which was conducted annually in Great Britain from 1957-2001 (see under GN 33057). The FES/NIFES provided reliable data on expenditure...
Expenditure and Food Survey, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
Family Expenditure Survey, 1998-1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Family Expenditure Survey (FES), which closed in 2001, was a continuous survey with an annual sample of around 10,000 households. They provided information on household and personal incomes, certain payments that recurred regularly (e.g. rent, gas and electricity bills, telephone accounts, insurances,...
Political Institutions Simulation Laboratory, 1974: Computer Program
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The object of this project was to simulate international relations in a world where consideration is taken of the decisions of the USA, USSR, China, Europe and certain countries of the Third World.
PRIS Computer Program, 1976; A Basic Program
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a computer version of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame (Anarchy and Cooperation by M J Taylor, Wiley, 1976), suitable for non-machine interaction.
WORLD II Computer Program, 1973
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To present a translation of Jay W Forrester's program published in <i>World Dynamics</i> (Cambridge, Mass: Wright Allen Press, 1971) from the original language to a more generally available one: BASIC. Forrester's work was a computer simulation of the relationships among a number of quantities...
Family Expenditure Survey, 2000-2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Family Expenditure Survey (FES), which closed in 2001, was a continuous survey with an annual sample of around 10,000 households. They provided information on household and personal incomes, certain payments that recurred regularly (e.g. rent, gas and electricity bills, telephone accounts, insurances,...
Constituency Campaigning in the 2001 General Election
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Over the last decade, there has been a renewal of interest in, and revaluation of, the effects of local constituency campaigning on the part of both academics and political parties. From the 1950s to the 1980s, as campaigning became more 'nationalised' - dominated by party leaders and focused almost...
Investment in Intangible Assets Survey, 2009-2010: Secure Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The UK Investment in Intangible Assets Survey (IIA Survey) was launched in 2009 and explores the level of spending and life lengths of private sector investments in intangible assets. The survey was discontinued following the 2010 survey.
The survey is distinctive from other surveys measuring intangible...
Quarterly Capital Expenditure Survey, 1998-2014: Secure Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducts a quarterly survey to collect capital expenditure data for various industry groups by asset. It is a statutory survey with a stratified random sample of approximately 26,000 to 32,000 businesses selected from the Inter-Departmental Business Register, where...
Spoken Languages Universal Numeric Translation Computer Program: English-German Translation, 1975
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a computer programme which provides a method of computer translation for all spoken languages through a specially invented package.
Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Internet Access Module, August, September and October, 2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) is an omnibus survey that collects data from respondents in Great Britain. Information is gathered on a range of subjects, commissioned both internally by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and by external clients (other government departments, charities,...
Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Internet Access Module, January, February and March, 2013
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) is an omnibus survey that collects data from respondents in Great Britain. Information is gathered on a range of subjects, commissioned both internally by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and by external clients (other government departments, charities,...
Living Costs and Food Survey, 2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
Family Expenditure Survey, 1995-1996
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Family Expenditure Survey (FES), which closed in 2001, was a continuous survey with an annual sample of around 10,000 households. They provided information on household and personal incomes, certain payments that recurred regularly (e.g. rent, gas and electricity bills, telephone accounts, insurances,...
Family Expenditure Survey, 1996-1997
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Family Expenditure Survey (FES), which closed in 2001, was a continuous survey with an annual sample of around 10,000 households. They provided information on household and personal incomes, certain payments that recurred regularly (e.g. rent, gas and electricity bills, telephone accounts, insurances,...
Improvements to StatJR software
The project added functionality to the Stat-JR, a software environment for promoting interactive complex statistical modelling. For details and free download pages for UK academics, see Related Resources. When social science researchers wish to carry out research and choose a quantitative approach, they will collect either new data or existing data and perform statistical...
Living Costs and Food Survey, 2018-2019
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
Living Costs and Food Survey, 2019-2020
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully...
WORLD III Algol Implementation on B6700, 1975; Computer Program
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this program is to simulate the World-3 model as described in D L Meadows et al, Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World (Cambridge, Mass: Wright Allen Press, 1974) and to introduce to the MIT-world models differences in the levels of socio-economic development in various parts of the world to...
PRINCE Project: International Transactions, Issue Specific Interactions and Power Data Sets, 1966-1972; Computer Program
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a computer program designed to provide a hypothetical international environment for the player in which the actions of four other nations (USSR, France, India and Pakistan) are simulated by the computer program.