Open access – Teaching datasets

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2025: Open Teaching Dataset

This open access dataset is a subsample from the original Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2025. It consists of 19 variables for random 16,876 respondents aged 16 to 65 years. This small easy-to-use dataset consists of a mixed of interesting categorical and continuous variables on economic and employment characteristics such as economic activity, sector, and hours worked. The dataset includes a new derived continuous variable measuring preferences for working fewer or extra hours that was calculated specifically for teaching purposes. It also contains several sociodemographic such as age, gender, ethnicity, education, and marital status.

In addition, this dataset includes a geographic variable (Government Office Region), which can be used in exploring regional differences across the UK.

Access: SN 9581 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2025: Open Teaching Dataset

EVENS - Evidence for Equality National Survey

The Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) provides unique insights into the experiences of ethnic minorities in Great Britain. The open acces teaching dataset includes the following topics:

Experiences of racism in different settings by ethnic and religious background.
Sense of belonging and importance of ethnic and religious identity.
Experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic relating to health, employment and financial security.
Political attitudes and support for Black Lives Matter.

It can be used in conjunction with the free e-book, allowing students to reproduce the analysis in the book or to carry out their own research.

Access: SN 9249 Evidence for Equality National Survey: a Survey of Ethnic Minorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021: Teaching Dataset

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities Open Access Teaching Dataset

The BSA 2021 Health Care and Equalities teaching dataset is derived from the original British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021. It includes variables on: health care - including views and satisfaction with the National Health Service (NHS) - and attitudes to equality such as equality in workplace and sexual relationships. The BSA 2021 open teaching data includes variables that are also available in the 2017 and 2019 open teaching datasets, which make this data perfect for carrying out time-based and comparison analyses.

SN 9236 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities: Open Access Teaching Dataset

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, Poverty and Welfare Open Access Teaching Dataset

This open access dataset is adapted from the main British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, which consists of over 3000 participants aged 18 and over. The teaching dataset has a reduced number of variables that cover wide range of topics including political behaviour and attitudes, society and culture, inequality and social exclusion and social welfare policy as well as demographics about the survey respondents.

SN 8850 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, Poverty and Welfare: Open Access Teaching Dataset

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics Open Access Teaching Dataset

This teaching dataset is a subset data from the original British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, which interviewed nearly 4000 individuals aged 18 and over. This open data is designed for teaching with fewer variables that mainly measure views about an important topic, climate change and actions related to the environment (such as car use, air travel, taxation). The data also include variables that assess interest in politics, voting behaviour, social welfare policy as well as a wide range of demographics.

SN 8849 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset

Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OLS), Well-Being Module, April-May 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset

The OLS open teaching data are based on the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Well-Being Module. This teaching data are a subsample with variables that cover topics relating to subjective wellbeing and self-rated health, employment status, social class and many sociodemographic. The data also consist of Government Office Region variable, which is perfect for Spatial Analysis and for creating maps. The OLS open data are for teaching and accessible to anyone without the need of registration. Our latest version is:

SN 7913 Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Well-Being Module, April-May 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset

This teaching data is subset from the main Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2015. With a sample size of 22,428 cases and 13 variables, this small data is appropriate for conducting basic statistical analysis such as comparing means, ANOVA and regression analysis. The variables focus on economic and employment status of respondents (e.g., working hours and social class). The data also have a variety of sociodemographic such as age, gender, ethnicity, education, marital status. This teaching dataset also includes a geographic variable (Government Office Region) which can be used in carrying out UK-wide statistical comparisons.

SN 7912 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset

Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2013-2014: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset

This teaching dataset contains data for 8,843 cases selected at random from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2013-2014,which represents 25 percent of the original 35,3711 cases. This dataset includes 32 variables, covering demographic details, experience and perceptions of crime, and antisocial behaviour. It has new scale variables measuring worry about crime and antisocial behaviour around area of living that were created specifically for teaching purposes. In addition, it consists of a geographic variable (type of area: urban/rural), which is perfect for studying differences between rural and urban residents.

SN 8011 Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2013-2014: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset

National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, 2010-2012: Open Access Teaching Dataset

The Natsal-3, 2010-2012 open teaching data is created from the original Natsal-3, a unique study that presents detailed information on sexual attitude of adults aged 16-74. The teaching dataset consists of 15,162 cases and 20 variables that were carefully chosen to cover the most interesting sexual behaviours related topics such as sex without love, pressure to have sex, age and gender effects on sex drive, and experience sex at early age. An additional continuous variable measuring level of sexually conservative attitudes was derived to be used in correlation and regression analysis. The teaching data also include many demographics and other important topics such as relationship status, religious beliefs, disability and mental health.

SN 8786 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, 2010-2012: Open Access Teaching Dataset

There are also open access datasets containing census microdata, see the Census page for more information.