Sources of socioeconomic data

Socio-economic data cover a wide variety of:

• themes e.g. wealth, governance and health
• content e.g. political boundaries, demographic information and economic statistics
• formats e.g. spatial, tabular and textual
• scales e.g. individual, household, enterprise, local, regional and global.

Locating relevant secondary data in the digital environment presents us with many opportunities and challenges. To assist you, we will start off by covering a few basic definitions. For example, many ‘data’ databases differentiate between microdata and macrodata. We will then run through how to access statistics from a range of sources, from government websites through to subscription databases – firstly focused on finance and business and then moving to other data archives more generally.

For more information or to make a booking please email libraryskills@ucl.ac.uk. This session is also part of the Doctoral School Skills Development programme. Postgraduate research students at UCL should book a place by logging in via the programme website.