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This guide is for users of research data accessed via the UK Data Service through its online services provided by the UK Data Service. In particular, all users who obtain data available under a Special Licence Agreement or Controlled data, where disclosure risk is increased, are required to read...

This document describes some of the common data processing checks, techniques and procedures undertaken during the ingest processing of quantitative data collections at the UK Data Archive. Since the bulk of quantitative data acquired by the Archive remains social survey data or similar, the guid...

This document covers the ingest processing of qualitative data collections archived at the UK Data Archive. It does not cover quantitative ingest processing, which is covered in the document Quantitative Data Ingest Processing Procedures. However, where mixed-method data collections contain both...

This document constitutes the Agreement which is made between the University of Essex and every employee of the University of Essex who works at the UK Data Archive, and other individuals who are given access to the Archive or its systems, regarding non-disclosure of any classified information he...

This document defines the policy for managing compliance with the terms and conditions of use for those data made available via UK Data Service labelled Safeguarded and/or Controlled irrespective of access route. Background information is provided concerning the agreements that Registered Users o...

UKDS deposit licence agreement.

UKDA end user licence agreement.

This guide covers standards and procedures for the preparation and preservation of documentation for UK Data Archive studies.

This document defines data collection ingest processing standards currently in use at the UK Data Archive, and the criteria used to allocate those standards.

This document is a brief but comprehensive overview of the main stages of data ingest processing undertaken on studies/data collections acquired by the UK Data Archive. It is intended as an introductory guide for new Ingest Services staff. New staff will normally undertake ingest processing work...