The Bodleian Data Library provides a range of services for researchers and students at the University of Oxford who need to make secondary use of statistics and data with the initial focus on the social sciences -
For data enquiries and help please email data@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, or contact the Data Librarian, John Southall (tel.: 01865 285936) at Bodleian Social Science Library direct.
ADLS supports academic research and is the focal centre for knowledge, help and assistance with the major administrative datasets in the UK.
OECD iLibrary provides access to statistical databases, series,full-text books, periodicals and reports released by the OECD, OECD Development Centre, PISA, and ITF containing citation tool for datasets and tables.
DatabasesOECD.Stat |
Key TablesCountry tables |
BooksOECD Factbook |
An umbrella organisation for social science data archives across Europe. The CESSDA Catalogue enables users to locate datasets, as well as questions or variables within datasets, stored at archives throughout Europe. Data collections include sociological surveys, election studies, longitudinal studies, opinion polls, and census data from the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometers, and the International Social Survey Programme among others.
An international organisation of professionals working in and with IT and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences, represents data archives, statistical agencies, research centers, libraries, academic and government departments, and non-profit organizations.
Provides information, consultation and data, supports and facilitates scientific work at every stage of the research process.
Part of the service infrastructure of the German Microdata Lab, MISSY is an online service platform that provides structured metadata for official statistics. It includes metadata at the study and variable level as well as reports and tools for data handling and analysis. All documentation in MISSY refers to EU and national (German microcensus) microdata available for scientific purposes.
For EU-LFS microdata users MISSY offers SPSS and STATA routines which transfer the EU-LFS 1999-2016 ad hoc csv-files to SPSS/Stata data files. Latest update are available here.
Decoding Big DataData analytics from ft.com |
The digitisation of our lives has generated an unprecedented surge of data. Technological advances have made collecting, storing and analysing large amounts of data cheaper and easier than ever before. |