How do I find data?

The ADR UK Data Catalogue is public facing data browser that allows researchers to discover suitable administrative datasets and request access to them.

Tutorial:

To begin, open the catalogue. You can use the search bar to find datasets with a specific keyword and narrow your results down further with the filters on the left hand side.

Filters:

Partner: filter by the origin of the data i.e. Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service (SRS) (ONS SRS), Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), SAIL Databank (Wales) and the Scottish Government.
Themes: filter by ADR UK's eight core strategic research themes.
Conditions Of Access: this conditions of access for the dataset.
Spatial Coverage: the geographical area covered by the dataset.
Geographic Levels: the geographic level(s) used in the dataset.
Source: source of the data extraction.
Dataset Frequency: the frequency of publishing.
Data Controller: the person/entity who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons/entities) determines the purposes for which and the way any Data Subject data, specifically personal data or are to be processed.

2. Once you have found a suitable dataset, click on the title to explore it further.

3. Here you will find a summary of the dataset.

5. To view further information about the dataset Publisher, click on the publisher Logo to open a pop-up box.

6. Click on the section headings below the dataset title block to explore the metadata associated with the dataset:

Please note the completeness of these sections may vary from dataset to dataset.

Summary: this first section displays the dataset publication and citation details.
Documentation: includes a rich text description of the dataset or links to media such as documents, images, presentations, videos or links to data dictionaries, profiles or dashboards.
Coverage: includes attributes for geographical and cohort details to enable you to make decisions about the relevance of the underlying data.
Provenance: this section allows you to understand data within the context of its origins and can be an indicator of quality, authenticity and timeliness.
Access and Governance: this section allows you to understand access, usage, limitations, formats, standards and linkage or interoperability with toolsets.
Enrichment and Linkage: includes information about related datasets that may have previously been linked, as well as indicating if there is the opportunity to link to other datasets in the future.
Observations: this section holds a series of observations about a dataset, such as number of persons, events or findings.
Version History: this section provides a log of major dataset updates and associated release notes.
Assets: download useful documents associated with the dataset.
Origin: this section details the origin of the dataset.
Data Dictionary: this describes the variables within a dataset i.e. tables/data classes and elements/attributes/fields within these classes. This gives you an idea of the specific data contained within a dataset. For further details see: How to use the data dictionary?

12. You can request access to the dataset by clicking on the “Access Data” button in the dataset header.

13. You can also get in contact with the dataset publisher using the “Contact' button which will direct you to your email client with the “To:” field filled with the dataset contact point.