Data Fest 2023: Data skills for large scale survey data
Data Fest 2023, hosted by the Researcher Academy in collaboration with the UK Data Service, is a programme of activity which will give you the chance to boost your data skills, knowledge and networks; whether you are just getting started or are interested in broadening your existing capabilities.
Studying large scale survey data
Do you want to use data from large national surveys? National and cross-national surveys are key sources of research data. They give easy access to data from large representative samples on a wide range of topics.
Through presentations and practical activities, these two workshops are designed by the UK Data Service to get you more confident working with these valuable sources of data:
17 March - From questionnaire to dataset: getting started with survey microdata
This session introduces features (and quirks) of survey data and includes practical skills for making sense of these valuable datasets. Through practical sessions, the aim is to get familiar with a large dataset, reviewing topics such as measurement and missing data. Finally, the session looks at issues around surveys weights and precision.
23 March - Recoding, filtering, and linking: getting data ready for your analyses
This session focuses on getting real datasets ready for analysis. There is often more work involved in preparing data than analysing the data. Through practical examples, the session looks at how we recode and compute variables and how to select population sub-groups for analyses. Finally, since datasets can also have complex structures with multiples files, the session will look at examples of merging and linking.
The sessions will include examples from real social surveys accessed from the UK Data Service such as British Social Attitudes survey, Labour Force Survey and Family Resources Survey. They will also highlight further resources from the UK Data Service and other organisations to help you continue to develop your data skills.
The sessions are for researchers and are designed for those with no prior experience of large survey datasets or for those who would like to refresh their knowledge.
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