ESDS Annual Report, 2008-2009

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Table 1 Data collections acquired and processed for online delivery Service 2007-2008 2008-2009 New datasets Updates and new editions 2 4 E C O N O M I C A N D S O C I A L DATA S E RV I C E A N N UA L R E P O RT AU G U S T 2 0 0 8 – J U LY 2 0 0 9 Total New datasets Updates and new ediions ESDS Core 87 22 109 94 20 114 ESDS Government 277 150 427 232 119 351 ESDS International 14 96 110 24 104 128 ESDS Longitudinal 26 20 46 77 54 131 ESDS Qualidata 22 2 24 29 2 31 Total 426 290 716 456 299 755 Table 2 Datasets further processed for value-added delivery via Nesstar and Beyond 20/20 Service 2007-2008 2008-2009 New datasets Updates and new editions Total New datasets Updates and new editions ESDS Core 5 2 7 2 2 4 ESDS Government 67 7 74 104 35 139 ESDS International* 1 68 69 1 89 90 ESDS Longitudinal 3 1 4 11 9 20 Total 76 78 154 118 135 253 *International macrodata are delivered via Beyond 20/20; all other services via Nesstar Table 3a Datasets delivered to users by access method 2007-2008 Download FTP Other access CD-ROM/DVD Nesstar Total ESDS Core 9,639 500 1,121 11 34 11,305 ESDS Government 22,052 689 4,639 2 353 27,735 ESDS International* 1,118 387 598 0 10 2,113 ESDS Longitudinal 6,073 71 357 3 125 6,629 ESDS Qualidata** 728 7 63 0 0 798 Total 39,610 1,654 6,778 16 522 48,580 2008-2009 Download FTP Via/access Portable Nesstar Total ESDS Core 9,260 391 964 2 23 10,640 ESDS Government 24,332 1,059 3,875 1 231 29,498 ESDS International* 968 269 790 1 0 2,028 ESDS Longitudinal 6,757 164 445 1 116 7,483 ESDS Qualidata** 1,174 20 98 0 0 1,292 Total 42,491 1,903 6,172 5 370 50,941 * international micro datasets only, macrodata series counted separately (see Tables 3b and 4) ** Nesstar does not include qualitative data Total Total
Table 3b Data Reports generated for international macrodata via Beyond 20/20 Total number of Data Report downloads Total 2007-2008* 91,205 2008-2009 120,627 *the 2007-2008 figure includes Data Reports generated only for the period 1 September 2007 - 31 July 2008, to reflect when recording of this information began Table 4 ESDS International macrodata accessed via Beyond 20/20 Total number of data analysis sessions Individual users 2007-2008 105,587 6,340 2008-2009 90,236 6,674 Table 5 Use of Nesstar online microdata browsing and analysis service Total number of data analysis sessions Individual users 2007-2008 16,995 8,719 2008-2009 17,944 8,419 A further complication arises from the fact that any of the microdata collections enumerated in Table 3a can also be redistributed locally to students using the data for instructional purposes. International macrodata are supplied to users via the Beyond 20/20 software interface based at Mimas. This allows the user to create tabular statistics in the form of data reports, as well as graphical outputs, similar to those of Nesstar described above. These can also be downloaded to a local device. Table 3b reports the number of data report downloads. It is important also not to overlook the access given to registered users to online qualitative data collections. These consist mostly of open-ended interviews and responses and are not really downloaded or saved in the same ways as the structured data collections mentioned thus far. Users can download related audio and image files from the collection but more usually might cut and paste snippets of text, thus making measurement problematic. With this outline of data access methods established, Table 3a shows that overall the number of microdata collections delivered to users continued the increasing trend of previous years, breaking the 50,000 figure for the first time. Within this figure, the basic distribution of data access between the various services supporting microdata also remained broadly the same, although the demand for ESDS Qualidata seems to have increased very significantly. The available statistical information would therefore suggest that after a period of year-on-year increase in usage during the first six years of ESDS, the apparent plateauing reported last year appears to have been temporary. It is important to note that these figures do not include counts of data redistributed for use in classrooms. Unfortunately, these data are notoriously difficult to capture since lecturers do not always return class registrations in a timely fashion. As a result figures are always at best approximate, but these add roughly a further 50,000 users accesses, in broadly the same proportions by service as shown in Table 3a. E C O N O M I C A N D S O C I A L DATA S E RV I C E A N N UA L R E P O RT AU G U S T 2 0 0 8 – J U LY 2 0 0 9 2 5
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