Extension for the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland from 2012 to 2017
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Geosciences
Abstract
Overall we aim to continue to develop the SLS, extending its potential through the addition of new datasets, expanding its research user base by making the data more accessible and extending its coverage through a mechanism for UK level studies.
Our 7 objectives are to:
1. Enhance the SLS through linkages to new datasets including the 2011 census
The key focus of the first two years will be the linking of the 2011 census to the SLS. This work will be considerable.
We will however also:
- link the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947 to the SLS. This will produce a sample of n~ 3000-3500 and provide information on the age, social class of the cohort's parents, and after the 1980s detailed health and census based information.
- establish links, explore the validity and reliability of two main sources of child health surveillance data.
Beyond 2014 we will be discussing with:
- a number of data holders, the possibility of linking their data to the SLS during the period 2012-2014. This will include the holders of: further and higher education data, information on educational attainment in private schools, social security, dental and prescribing data.
- NRS whether it might be feasible to develop a system that would allow 'special' samples of 'SLSs' to be drawn from a 100% population spine producing bespoke 'SLSs'.
2. Support access and use of the SLS by researchers
The core work of the SLS is supporting researchers through the whole life cycle of an SLS research project from application, preparation and data analysis, to publication dissemination. We also organise web-based resources that will help make use of the SLS easier and provide training on the SLS and longitudinal data handling, analysis and modelling through a series of workshops and seminars.
3. Maintain the SLS and safe setting
We will continue with the core maintenance tasks of the study.
4. Engage and collaborate with other ESRC investments
We will work towards a greater integration of the LSes. We will actively support the UK Census Longitudinal Study Development Hub in particular providing significant research support for a project to create a synthetic dataset that can be made available to researchers more flexibly.
5. Promote the research potential of the SLS
We will continue to participate in national and international conferences promoting longitudinal analysis and the SLS. Our website is also an important vehicle not only for advertising the research potential of the SLS, but also for encouraging access to the resource and promoting the outputs and impacts that have already been achieved by researchers using the dataset.
6. Promote the impact of the SLS
The SLS already has a track record of directly promoting the impact of its research. Firstly we plan to conduct impact case-studies on a sample of SLS-based projects. We would also seek to continue to hold regular annual presentations and discussion workshops with key government departments. A third avenue of impact promotion planned is to approach professional private-sector bodies to discuss the types of issues directly relevant to their work which might be effectively explored using the SLS.
7. Conduct methodological development work
A disadvantage of the current access to SLS data is that users must either visit the safe setting in the SLS unit or submit code to be run by SLS staff. The idea of synthetic data is that simulated data are produced that do not correspond to any real individuals or organisations, but maintain the distributions and the relationships between the variables that exist in the original. This can therefore be used outside the safe setting. We aim to develop a method to produce safe synthetic versions of the SLS.
We will also test the validity, reliability and utility of any new data being introduced into the SLS.
Our 7 objectives are to:
1. Enhance the SLS through linkages to new datasets including the 2011 census
The key focus of the first two years will be the linking of the 2011 census to the SLS. This work will be considerable.
We will however also:
- link the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947 to the SLS. This will produce a sample of n~ 3000-3500 and provide information on the age, social class of the cohort's parents, and after the 1980s detailed health and census based information.
- establish links, explore the validity and reliability of two main sources of child health surveillance data.
Beyond 2014 we will be discussing with:
- a number of data holders, the possibility of linking their data to the SLS during the period 2012-2014. This will include the holders of: further and higher education data, information on educational attainment in private schools, social security, dental and prescribing data.
- NRS whether it might be feasible to develop a system that would allow 'special' samples of 'SLSs' to be drawn from a 100% population spine producing bespoke 'SLSs'.
2. Support access and use of the SLS by researchers
The core work of the SLS is supporting researchers through the whole life cycle of an SLS research project from application, preparation and data analysis, to publication dissemination. We also organise web-based resources that will help make use of the SLS easier and provide training on the SLS and longitudinal data handling, analysis and modelling through a series of workshops and seminars.
3. Maintain the SLS and safe setting
We will continue with the core maintenance tasks of the study.
4. Engage and collaborate with other ESRC investments
We will work towards a greater integration of the LSes. We will actively support the UK Census Longitudinal Study Development Hub in particular providing significant research support for a project to create a synthetic dataset that can be made available to researchers more flexibly.
5. Promote the research potential of the SLS
We will continue to participate in national and international conferences promoting longitudinal analysis and the SLS. Our website is also an important vehicle not only for advertising the research potential of the SLS, but also for encouraging access to the resource and promoting the outputs and impacts that have already been achieved by researchers using the dataset.
6. Promote the impact of the SLS
The SLS already has a track record of directly promoting the impact of its research. Firstly we plan to conduct impact case-studies on a sample of SLS-based projects. We would also seek to continue to hold regular annual presentations and discussion workshops with key government departments. A third avenue of impact promotion planned is to approach professional private-sector bodies to discuss the types of issues directly relevant to their work which might be effectively explored using the SLS.
7. Conduct methodological development work
A disadvantage of the current access to SLS data is that users must either visit the safe setting in the SLS unit or submit code to be run by SLS staff. The idea of synthetic data is that simulated data are produced that do not correspond to any real individuals or organisations, but maintain the distributions and the relationships between the variables that exist in the original. This can therefore be used outside the safe setting. We aim to develop a method to produce safe synthetic versions of the SLS.
We will also test the validity, reliability and utility of any new data being introduced into the SLS.
Planned Impact
The value of longitudinal datasets has long been recognized, and the SLS was created in order to provide a high quality longitudinal research dataset that could be used to provide an insight into the demographic, health and social status of the Scottish population. Scotland had been disadvantaged relative to England and Wales in the poverty of its longitudinal databases (i.e. databases that link individuals' characteristics through time, allowing changing circumstances to be investigated) on demographic, socio-economic and health information. The SLS, fairly uniquely, allows important questions to be asked about the demographic, health and social status of the Scottish population.
This is important because Scotland differs considerably from the rest of Britain in a number of ways. For example, on average Scots live in more deprived circumstances, have lower fertility rates, higher teenage fertility rates, and are more likely to live in public housing than people living in England and Wales. In addition, overall mortality rates are higher than the rest of Britain, even when we control for age distribution and the relatively more deprived circumstances in Scotland (commonly described as the 'Scottish Effect'), and deaths from specific causes such as lung cancer and heart disease rank among the worst in Europe. Indeed, lung cancer rates for Scottish women are among the highest in the world. Thus, Scotland provides a unique demographic, socio-economic and health context within the UK, and there has been a lack of research on a number of important topics. These are all issues that can be explored using the SLS and they become especially interesting as social and health policies continue to diverge between Scotland and the rest of the UK as a result of devolution.
Because of its unique composition and the large proportion of the population it represents (5.3% of the Scottish population as compared to 1% in the England and Wales LS), the SLS provides benefits to academics from a wide range of academic disciplines, including geographers, health researchers, social scientists, economists and labour market analysts to name a few (see 'Academic Beneficiaries' above). This impact reaches beyond Scottish academics, with researchers from other UK and European countries already having used the SLS for their projects. Outputs and publications from SLS-based projects are published and presented widely in international journals and at international conferences.
In addition to this academic impact, the SLS has been also been used to examine a wide range of research questions feeding into government social, health and housing policy. This has included reports and studies conducted on behalf of the Scottish Government, Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, and Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Additionally, presentations from other SLS-based studies have been given at Scottish Government events, and several discussion papers have been published by the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor. Researchers from the department of Employability, Skills and Lifelong Learning, ISD and the NHS are also currently involved in policy-based research projects utilizing the strengths of the SLS.
This is important because Scotland differs considerably from the rest of Britain in a number of ways. For example, on average Scots live in more deprived circumstances, have lower fertility rates, higher teenage fertility rates, and are more likely to live in public housing than people living in England and Wales. In addition, overall mortality rates are higher than the rest of Britain, even when we control for age distribution and the relatively more deprived circumstances in Scotland (commonly described as the 'Scottish Effect'), and deaths from specific causes such as lung cancer and heart disease rank among the worst in Europe. Indeed, lung cancer rates for Scottish women are among the highest in the world. Thus, Scotland provides a unique demographic, socio-economic and health context within the UK, and there has been a lack of research on a number of important topics. These are all issues that can be explored using the SLS and they become especially interesting as social and health policies continue to diverge between Scotland and the rest of the UK as a result of devolution.
Because of its unique composition and the large proportion of the population it represents (5.3% of the Scottish population as compared to 1% in the England and Wales LS), the SLS provides benefits to academics from a wide range of academic disciplines, including geographers, health researchers, social scientists, economists and labour market analysts to name a few (see 'Academic Beneficiaries' above). This impact reaches beyond Scottish academics, with researchers from other UK and European countries already having used the SLS for their projects. Outputs and publications from SLS-based projects are published and presented widely in international journals and at international conferences.
In addition to this academic impact, the SLS has been also been used to examine a wide range of research questions feeding into government social, health and housing policy. This has included reports and studies conducted on behalf of the Scottish Government, Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, and Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Additionally, presentations from other SLS-based studies have been given at Scottish Government events, and several discussion papers have been published by the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor. Researchers from the department of Employability, Skills and Lifelong Learning, ISD and the NHS are also currently involved in policy-based research projects utilizing the strengths of the SLS.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Christopher Dibben (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Feng Z
(2013)
A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed-Ethnic Unions in England and Wales
in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Raab Gillian
(2014)
A simplified approach to generating synthetic data for disclosure control
in arXiv e-prints
Sharpe KH
(2014)
Association between socioeconomic factors and cancer risk: a population cohort study in Scotland (1991-2006).
in PloS one
Gaye A
(2014)
DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis.
in International journal of epidemiology
McCollum D
(2018)
Determinants of occupational mobility: the importance of place of work
in Regional Studies
Ralston K
(2017)
Do differences in religious affiliation explain high levels of excess mortality in the UK?
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
| Description | There have been 5 main discovery and development areas: 1. Enhance the SLS through the linkage to new datasets including the 2011 census . In the period we have successfully completed the linkage of the 2011 census and now we have three censuses, allowing a 20-year follow-up. We also achieved linkages to other administrative data such as schools data in Scotland (school census and Scottish Qualifications Authority data), dental and prescribing data (from 2009), 15 years of previous address information from historical postcode (Community Health Index) data, Child Health Surveillance Programme (CHSP - early life and school developmental and health information) data. The linkage to the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey has also been completed with a high linkage rate, which adds an important new dimension to the UK LSes with, for the first time, analysis possible for a new 1936 birth cohort linking early life context (age 11) and later life outcomes (ages 55, 65, 75). 2. Support access and use of the SLS by researchers. This support is free of charge to academic users and involves help through the whole life-cycle of an SLS project from application, the creation of the SLS data to their analysis. We also support SLS users with ISD health data by assisting their application to PBPP and liaising with eDRIS. So far we have supported 60 approved projects since 2012, compared to 17 in the period up to 2012, a large increase in users. As a result, the SLS Safe Setting has also seen an increase in visits from 204 visits in the period up to 2012 rising to 682 visits between 2012-2016 and 297 visits in 2017 (32 so far in 2018). We also supported a substantial number of extensions to existing projects often tackling new research questions. We provided training workshops and seminars on the SLS twice per year and once per year longitudinal data handling, analysis and modelling. 3. Maintain the SLS and safe setting We have continued the maintenance of the SLS, updating databases (including winning £50K of extra funding from the MRC to modernise our database structure and allow for virtual machines), software, and hardware, and improved the environment for researchers. 4. Engage and collaborate with other ESRC investments We work towards a greater integration of the 3 LSes. We have created and then actively supported the UK Census and Administrative data LongitudinaL Studies (CALLS) Hub. An innovative method that allowed statistical analysis without physically moving data out of a LS support unit (eDatashield) has been developed and used by researchers. We regularly join forces with other RSUs and CALLS to promote the 3 studies, in the past roadshows/workshops, more recently joint UK LS sessions/symposiums at conferences (for example at CLOSER in 2017). We worked together with ADRC Scotland and UKDS to share information and organise training on SLS and other LSes. 5. Conduct methodological development work A disadvantage of the current access to SLS data is that users must either visit the safe setting in the SLS unit or submit code to be run by SLS staff. To overcome this we have developed methods and software (SYNTHPOP) for creating bespoke synthetic data extracts that do not correspond to any real individuals, but maintain the distributions and the relationships between the variables that exist in the original. This can therefore be used outside the safe setting. We have approval from NRS to create bespoke synthetic data for SLS data extracts for users. Work by the SLS-DSU has resulted in a new methodology which means it is now possible to analyse data from one or more LS as though they were part of the same dataset with no data moving between units. This is achieved through a software package developed in R by the SLS called eDATASHIELD, which is currently able to support all forms of GLM regression analyses. We have active collaborations with the University of Manchester and Penn State University and our team member, Gillian Raab has been invited to share our experience of providing synthetic data with the Centre for Disease Control in Washington. |
| Exploitation Route | The SLS already has relatively wide engagement with the academic community. We have completely redesigned our website in this phase of funding. It now follows the same structure as the UKDS and includes new features such as step-by-step instructions on how the study can be accessed. It includes a fully-functioning data dictionary jointly with other 2 LSes and we have produced and will continue to develop a series of working papers which provide detailed information about the study. We have been very active in promoting longitudinal analysis, the use of routinely collected administrative data and the SLS itself. From Aug 2012 the SLS project has resulted in 179 outputs, including: 108 presentations and posters on the SLS; authored 44 journal articles; produced 3 policy briefs; 8 research working papers; given one lecture; produced 5 PhD theses and 1 Masters thesis; written 1 newspaper article and 1 magazine article on the subject of the SLS. The SLS has always made great efforts in promoting the impact of its research. We have contributed to Science & Policy Network (SPiNe) Launch events organised by CALLS Hub in April 2014 as well as participated in the Scottish Governments 'Evidence in Policy' Events in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2016. Our training workshops are open to governmental researchers and we hold regular annual presentations and discussion workshops with key government departments such as ISD, NHS, Department of Employment, Skills and Lifelong learning. We have conducted impact case studies on a subset of SLS-based projects. We have a project for assessing the 2011 census quality with NRS, and supported a project with Glasgow council aimed at allowing effective forecasting of changes in housing needs. More generally we have developed a 'for the public' section on our website and added the SLS to the Wikipedia page on longitudinal studies. In recent years SLS has also had a social media presence via Twitter (now over 600 followers). What has happened The governance structure, linkage methodology and estimation methods, developed by the SLS team, have been used by the Scottish Government, National government and research councils as a model for newly emerging research infrastructures. We have been integral to this process, sitting on committees, acting as experts and helping on various advisory bodies (eg the Administrative Data Taskforce). The research findings of external researchers using the SLS have been taken forward in wide variety of different ways, all of which are recorded on our SLS website. We also promote these research findings, which are often applied in nature through a variety of knowledge exchange mechanisms including social media, presentations (to academics, government and the public). Work by the SLS-DSU has resulted in a new methodology which means it is now possible to analyse data from one or more LS as though they were part of the same dataset with no data moving between units. This is achieved through a software package developed in R by the SLS called eDATASHIELD, which is currently able to support all forms of GLM regression analyses. Other users of sensitive data can benefit from this package. Similarly, the methods and software SYNTHPOP for creating bespoke synthetic data extracts will be of interest to others working with comparable restricted access data. The SYNTHPOP R package is available freely for download. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment |
| URL | http://sls.lscs.ac.uk/outputs/ |
| Description | The Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) has had impact in a number of significant areas in Scotland but also more widely across the UK: 1. It has changed National Records of Scotland's (NRS) statistical infrastructure - allowing new statistical series to be produced 2. It is used by local, national government and NHS officials for policy analysis, impacting local and national policy decision making 3. The study has trained over 100 researchers in longitudinal data analysis using administrative data 4. The SLS data system has become a model for the newly emerging UK national administrative data infrastructure. Changed the NRS statistical infrastructure. The SLS has been accepted as a Scottish National study and as such it is now co-supported and housed within the NRS - the National Statistical Agency since 2004. As a longitudinal study it replaces the need for expensive traditional longitudinal surveys collected through face-to-face questionnaires (often costing up to £10 million). The recognition of the study by the Scottish equivalent of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) as being part of the National statistical system is testament to the quality and reliability of the study. The SLS has changed the type of statistical series that NRS are producing. For example, the Registrar General's (RG) reports in 2010, on new demographic findings, makes extensive use of the SLS; the invited chapter for the 2016 report used the SLS to look at Household Changes and Housing Provision in Scotland. Since 1855 - the RG report is annually laid before Parliament as the major statement on Scotland's population. NRS have used it to ask important questions about the nature of occupational coding (and therefore social class) on death certificates (a key statistic for government), investigating the potential exaggeration of someone's occupation status at death. Impact on local and national policy decision making. Since its creation, the SLS has also been used by analysts outside the academy to examine a wide range of research questions feeding into government social, health and housing policy. This has included, for example, reports and studies conducted on behalf of the Scottish Government (SG), Scottish Public Health Observatory and the NHS. To give two examples: 1) Researchers in Glasgow City Council used it to investigate local patterns of housing tenure change and in particular the slowing of the fall in demand for social housing. These findings were incorporated into a demographic model of tenure change, which then fed into the research base for a number of key strategic policy documents including the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Needs and Demand Assessment, Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan, and Glasgow's Housing Strategy. 2) A researcher working within SG on 'return migration' work formed key evidence for the SG report, 'Characteristics and intentions of immigrants to and emigrants from Scotland - Review of existing evidence' (Eirich, 2011). This, in turn, was discussed by Skills Development Scotland, Migrants' Rights Network, National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns and the Information Centre about asylum and refugees. It was also referenced in the UK Needs Analysis Report of the EU Portfolio of Integration projects. In addition, we were recently informed by SG that the report from the SLS project on Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEETs) published in 2015 directly impacted on policy in the following ways: (i). The development of the participation measure and 'Opportunities for All'. (ii). Influencing the Community Jobs Fund. (iii). Impacted work with local authorities, highlighting the factors that are important for young people at risk of being NEET. (iv). Impacted work with other SG departments, including health and housing and especially justice. (v). Briefing for Ministers, including First Minister's Questions. Training researchers. In addition to the impacts of managing a major database for government, and producing research that impacts policy in the areas of health, education and employment, a third impact has been in training people in longitudinal data analysis and in supporting non-academic research using the SLS. SLS staff have been pro-active in organising training for those outside the academy wishing to access the SLS. Since 2008, training events have been organised by the SLS team in Edinburgh, Belfast, Glasgow, London, Stirling, and St Andrews. From 2012 we running training events at least twice per year. Well over 100 non-academic users have been trained over the years including a few people from local authorities and from health boards, and over 100 from various sectors of the SG, and some from Charities or private consulting firms. Given the relatively small community of quantitative social scientists in Scotland, this represents a good proportion of potential users. As a result of this training, 10 longitudinal research projects have been launched by non-academics in the fields of health inequalities, migration, housing and employment. Overall, use of the SLS has increased considerably since it was first established. Numbers of Researchers (academic and non-academic) visiting the Safe Setting to access their data extracts rose from 25 visits to the Safe Setting in 2009 to 297 in 2017 (2010=83 visits, 2011=96, 2012=119, 2013=76, 2014=89, 2015=149, 2016=249, so far 2018=32). Model for the newly emerging UK national administrative data infrastructure. The SLS has become a path-breaking model that allows the linkage, holding, and analysis of highly personal data within appropriately strict legal and ethical constraints. For example, the SG use it as an exemplar of good practice in their development of National Data Sharing and Linkage Service stating: "The SLS has been of absolute fundamental importance to the development of the new National Data Sharing and Linking Service". The SLS has become a very important model for other parts of the UK that are seeking to produce similar studies. The Administrative Data Taskforce (ADT) (making recommendations to David Willets, the Minister of State for Universities and Science, and BIS over the future of UK wide research infrastructure) has used the design of the SLS as a model for future UK-wide research centres). The ADT argued that future "ADRC [Administrative Data Research Centres] could build on best practice from the experience of the . Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS)" (p.5) and have a "data linkage process ... similar to that used by the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), where personal identifying information is not held in the ADRC, but is matched through a third party service, such as the National Health Service Central Register" (p.6). |
| First Year Of Impact | 2003 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN - LONGPOP - Methodologies and Data mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers |
| Amount | € 3,860,731 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN |
| Organisation | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions |
| Department | Initial Training Networks (ITN) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 02/2020 |
| Description | Modelling historical air pollution and dementia/cognitive decline: towards a life course approach |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/P010849/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 03/2018 |
| Title | 1936 birth cohort linked to Scottish Longitudinal Study |
| Description | 1936 birth cohort linked to Scottish Longitudinal Study |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Huang, Z., Dibben, C., Kirby, G., Deary, I., Popham, F. & Connelly, F. (2015) The creation of an administrative data based 1936 Birth Cohort Study The Farr Institute International Conference 2015, University of St Andrews, UK, 26 - 28 August 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/the-creation-of-an-administrative-data-based-1936-birth-cohort-study... |
| Description | LSCS for extending the SLS |
| Organisation | National Records of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The SLS involves: creating, maintaining, extending, supporting, promoting and utilising the SLS data - which is a large-scale linkage study created using data from administrative and statistical sources. These include: census data from 1991 onwards; vital events data (births, deaths, marriages); NHS Central Register data (gives information on migration into or out of Scotland); and education data (including Schools Census and SQA data). For this to happen, National Records of Scotland (as the data controller for census records) needs to a be an active partner. Over 10 years the SLS team has worked with NRS to build a use case for a linked census study within NRS and then jointly developing and then operationalising a methodology for such a study. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NRS: - provide the accommodation for hosting the SLS data, main office and Safe Setting room - employ a NRS SLS Project Manger - aids with the record linkage of various parts of the project. These include: census data; vital events data and NHS Central Register data School of Geography and Geosciences St Andrews: - Colleagues employed on the project help create, support, promote and utilise the SLS data |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary and spans various funding rounds of the SLS project, covering: 67 Publications (25 from ES/K00574X/1 and 42 from ES/I037652/1) 57 Engagement Activities (36 from ES/K000454/1, 13 from ES/I037652/1 and 8 from ES/G020787/1) |
| Description | LSCS for extending the SLS |
| Organisation | University of St Andrews |
| Department | School of Geography & Geosciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The SLS involves: creating, maintaining, extending, supporting, promoting and utilising the SLS data - which is a large-scale linkage study created using data from administrative and statistical sources. These include: census data from 1991 onwards; vital events data (births, deaths, marriages); NHS Central Register data (gives information on migration into or out of Scotland); and education data (including Schools Census and SQA data). For this to happen, National Records of Scotland (as the data controller for census records) needs to a be an active partner. Over 10 years the SLS team has worked with NRS to build a use case for a linked census study within NRS and then jointly developing and then operationalising a methodology for such a study. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NRS: - provide the accommodation for hosting the SLS data, main office and Safe Setting room - employ a NRS SLS Project Manger - aids with the record linkage of various parts of the project. These include: census data; vital events data and NHS Central Register data School of Geography and Geosciences St Andrews: - Colleagues employed on the project help create, support, promote and utilise the SLS data |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary and spans various funding rounds of the SLS project, covering: 67 Publications (25 from ES/K00574X/1 and 42 from ES/I037652/1) 57 Engagement Activities (36 from ES/K000454/1, 13 from ES/I037652/1 and 8 from ES/G020787/1) |
| Title | Synthpop: Generating synthetic versions of sensitive microdata for statistical disclosure control |
| Description | --- A tool for producing synthetic versions of microdata containing confidential information so that they are safe to be released to users for exploratory analysis. The key objective of generating synthetic data is to replace sensitive original values with synthetic ones causing minimal distortion of the statistical information contained in the data set. Variables, which can be categorical or continuous, are synthesised one-by-one using sequential modelling. Replacements are generated by drawing from conditional distributions fitted to the original data using parametric or classification and regression trees models. Data are synthesised via the function syn() which can be largely automated, if default settings are used, or with methods defined by the user. Optional parameters can be used to influence the disclosure risk and the analytical quality of the synthesised data. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The synthpop package for R facilitates greatly generating non-disclosive entirely synthetic versions of sensitive restricted access microdata (e.g. the UK Longitudinal Studies) that can then be made more freely available for explanatory research and training. This can increase usage and impact of the unique and valuable resources. |
| URL | http://cran.r-project.org/package=synthpop |
| Title | eDATASHIELD |
| Description | eDATASHIELD is a package within the R Statistical package to run a joint analysis on datasets that cannot be physically brought together. Due to Data Protection concerns, the current agreements in place for the LSs mean that it is not possible to access LS data outwith its respective safe-setting. This means that to-date it has not been possible to fully combine datasets to allow comparisons between regions or to create a UK-wide sample. Instead the only option has been to conduct separate analyses and then compare or combine the results on an ad-hoc basis. Work in the SLS-DSU has resulted in a new methodology which means it is now possible to analyse data from one or more LS as though they were part of the same dataset. This is achieved through a process called eDatashield, which is currently able to support all forms of GLM regression analyses. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Analysis on England and Scottish LS data and Northern Ireland and Scottish data |
| Description | A longitudinal analysis of health effects of NEET experiences in Scotland, 2001-2011 (Feng, Z., Everington, D., Ralston, K. & Dibben, C.; Census Conference 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Census Conference, Cathie Marsh Centre, Manchester, July 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/2015-census-conference/abstracts#feng |
| Description | An Introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Carsley, S; BSPS 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Introductory talk about the SLS, it's data and plans for the future - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/an-introduction-to-the-scottish-longitudinal-study-sls-2/ |
| Description | Assessing the potential impact of markers of social support on levels of 'excess' mortality in Scotland and Glasgow compared to elsewhere in the UK (Ralston, K, Walsh, D, Feng, Z & Dibben, C; BSPS 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at BSPS 2014 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/assessing-the-potential-impact-of-markers-of-social-support-on-level... |
| Description | Causal pathways between socioeconomic disadvantage and growth in the Scottish Longitudinal Study, 1991-2001 (Silverwood, R, Williamson, L, Grundy, E & De Stavola, B; NCRM/Pathways & SLS-DSU Workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NCRM Pathways & SLS-DSU workshop: 'Social disadvantage, child health and attainment: The potential of analyses of the UK census-based longitudinal studies', London, 31 March 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/causal-pathways-between-socioeconomic-disadvantage-and-growth-in-the... |
| Description | Celebrating 10 years of research projects at the SLS - Introduction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Scottish Longitudinal Study Development and Support Unit (SLS-DSU) has been supporting research projects for 10 years and to mark this achievement we held a celebratory event. The event on 7th December 2017 comprised presentations and a user feedback section at the end. The main session showcased a selection of the many research projects which have been supported by the SLS-DSU spanning the decade of SLS projects. In addition we presented the SLS 1936 Birth Cohort which we launched earlier this year and an exciting new SLS data development using historical postcodes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://sls.lscs.ac.uk/news/ |
| Description | Census and Administrative Microdata Linkage in the UK, the USA, and Canada: Prospects, Problems and Solutions? (Shuttleworth, I, Cooke, T, Shelton, N, Duke-Williams, O, Dibben, C & Spielman, S; AAG 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Session panel organised by SLS-DSU, NILS-RSU, CeLSIUS at AAG Annual Meeting 2014, Tampa, Florida, USA. 21 - 25 April 2014 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/census-and-administrative-microdata-linkage-in-the-uk-the-usa-and-ca... |
| Description | Consequences of young people not in education, employment or training - NEETs: a longitudinal analysis (Feng, Z; Scottish Longitudinal Study NEET Project - Research Findings Meeting) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research findings to Scottish Government group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/consequences-of-young-people-not-in-education-employment-or-training... |
| Description | Creating a postcode history from medical sources for longitudinal analyses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dawn Everinton presented: 'Creating a postcode history from medical sources for longitudinal analyses' Everington, D., Huang, Z. & Feng, Z. (2017) at the UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 2 June 2017. The event provided a great showcase for research from SLS study. The conference included a series of sessions sponsored by CALLS Hub, promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | Demographic Change in the Scottish Jewish Community 2001-2011 (Raab, G, Borowski, E & Frank, F; SLS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/demographic-change-in-the-scottish-jewish-community-2001-2011/ |
| Description | Do Young People (NEET) presenation at BSPS Winchester Sep 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster presentation at the British Society of Population Studies (BSPS), University of Winchester, UK, 12 - 14 September 2016 (Ralston, K., Feng, Z., Everington, D. & Dibben, C). NEET is a contested concept. However, it is consistently used by policy makers and shown in research to be associated with negative outcomes. In this poster presentation we used the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) to examine whether NEET status is associated with subsequent occupational scarring to inform and promote discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/Researchcentresandgroups/BSPS/annualConference/2016-Conference-Win... |
| Description | Do young people not in education, employment and training (NEET) experience long term occupational scarring? A longitudinal analysis over 20 years of follow up (Ralston, Everington, Feng & Dibben; Milan 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Social Stratification Research Seminar, University of Milan, Italy, 6 - 8 September 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/do-young-people-not-in-education-employment-and-training-neet-experi... |
| Description | Dr Zhiqiang Feng presented on Health consequences of young people not in employment, education or training at Society for Lifetime Longitudinal Studie, The European Population Conference, Germany on 31st Aug. - 3rd Sept. 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Zhiqiang Feng, presentated on 'Health consequences of young people not in employment, education or training: A 20 year longitudinal analysis' (Zhiqiang Feng, Kevin Ralston, Dawn Everington, Chris Dibben, Elspeth Graham) on 31st Aug. - 3rd Sept. 2016 at the European Population Conference, Germany. The conference provided an opportunity to engage with researchers at a leading international and interdisciplinary forum for population studies with a special focus on Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.eaps.nl/scientific-activities/events/epc-2016-mainz-germany |
| Description | Examining the occupational scarring of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in 1991 (Ralston, K, Everington, D, Feng, Z & Dibben, C; SLS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/examining-the-occupational-scarring-of-young-people-not-in-education... |
| Description | Excess mortality in Scotland and Glasgow compared with England and Manchester and Liverpool (Ralston, K, Feng, Z, Walsh, D & Dibben, C) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/excess-mortality-in-scotland-and-glasgow-compared-with-england-and-m... |
| Description | Generating synthetic microdata to widen access to sensitive data sets (Nowok, B, Raab, G & Dibben, C; Scottish Government Assistant Statisticians Meeting) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To showcase the methodology "Generating synthetic microdata to widen access to sensitive data sets". Presentation at the Scottish Government Assistant Statisticians Meeting - Quantitative methods; Edinburgh, Victoria Quay, 26 June 2014. - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/generating-synthetic-microdata-to-widen-access-to-sensitive-data-set... |
| Description | Geographies, risk factors and long-term effects of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Scottish Government Assistant Statistician meeting, Edinburgh, 2 July 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/geographies-risk-factors-and-long-term-effects-of-young-people-not-i... |
| Description | Governance and data access an interactive approach (Heaney, Clemens, Willimanson, Dibben & Carsley; Fest Soc Sci 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interactive workshop on the ethics and governance of social health research. Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, Edinburgh 13 November 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/governance-and-data-access-an-interactive-approach/ |
| Description | Health consequences of young people not in employment, education or training: analysis of mortality risk in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Zhiqiang Feng presented 'Health consequences of young people not in employment, education or training: analysis of mortality risk in Scotlan,' Feng, Z., Everington, D., Ralston, K. & Dibben, C. (2017) at the UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 2 June 2017. The conference provided a great showcase for research from the ONS LS, NILS and SLS studies. The conference included a series of sessions sponsored by CALLS Hub, promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/health-consequences-of-young-people-not-in-employment-education-or-t... |
| Description | Healthcare expenditure projections: impact of costs at the end of life (Geue, C, Briggs, A, Lewsey, J & Lorgelly, P) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop presentation at Workshop zu Verteilungsfragen im Gesundheitswesen: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie e.V. [Workshop on distributional issues in healthcare: German Association for Health Economics], 16 - 17 November 2012, Hamburg. - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/healthcare-expenditure-projections-impact-of-costs-at-the-end-of-lif... |
| Description | How are we making the LSs easier to use? (UK LS Roadshow, Aberdeen; Dibben, C) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at event to promote the three UK Longitudinal Studies, organised by Census & Administrative data LongitudinaL Studies Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/how-are-we-making-the-lss-easier-to-use/ |
| Description | How are we making the LSs easier to use? (UK LS Roadshow, Glasgow; Dibben, C) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at event to promote the three UK Longitudinal Studies, organised by Census & Administrative data LongitudinaL Studies Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/how-are-we-making-the-lss-easier-to-use-2/ |
| Description | How to generate synthetic data using the 'synthpop' package (Raab, G & Nowok, B; CeLSIUS training) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Training seminar for CeLSIUS team - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/how-to-generate-synthetic-data-using-the-synthpop-package/ |
| Description | How to generate synthetic data using the 'synthpop' package (Raab, G & Nowok, B; NILS-RSU training) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Introduction training for NILS-RSU team Methods training for NILS-RSU team Methods training for NILS-RSU team |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/how-to-generate-synthetic-data-using-the-synthpop-package-2/ |
| Description | Impacts of NEET experiences on social and health outcomes: an analysis using the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Ralston, K, Feng, Z, Raab, G & Dibben, C) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social Stratification Research Group, Winter Seminar. Iris Murdoch Centre, University of Stirling, UK - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/impacts-of-neet-experiences-on-social-and-health-outcomes-an-analysi... |
| Description | Impacts of NEET experiences on social and health outcomes: an analysis using the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Ralston, K, Feng, Z, Raab, G & Dibben, C; Social Stratification Research Group Winter Seminar, Stirling 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/impacts-of-neet-experiences-on-social-and-health-outcomes-an-analysi... |
| Description | Introducing the England and Wales Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS) and Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) for research use (Williamson, L.; NCRM/Pathways workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop presented results of research projects that exploited the richness of the England and Wales Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS) and the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introducing-the-ons-ls-and-sls/ |
| Description | Introducing the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Williamson, L & Dibben, C; BSPS 2013) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An introductory talk to the Scottish Longitudinal Study, it's data, research potential and future plans Increased web traffic and Twitter followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introducing-the-scottish-longitudinal-study-sls/ |
| Description | Introduction and the 2011 Census link (Carsley, S; SLS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Increased web traffic, new Twitter followers. Interested discussion afterwards - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introduction-and-the-2011-census-link/ |
| Description | Introduction to R (Nowok, B) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | In-house training in using the R In-house training for the SLS-DSU team in using the R software package. In-house training for the SLS-DSU team in using the R software package. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Introduction to Survival Analysis Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A one day workshop on survival analysis for time to event data. The course was aimed at postgraduate students, academics and health or social researchers with experience of statistical analyses but new to this type of analysis, particularly those considering using the Scottish Longitudinal Study. The workshop introduced methods to display and model time to event data, including Kaplan-Meier plots and Cox proportional hazards regression. The survival analysis theory was complimented with hands-on practical sessions using either SPSS, Stata and R packages on training datasets similar to SLS data. Presentations of real projects demonstrated research potential. The course was led by Professor Gillian Raab and support by Dawn Everington. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/about/events/2017-06-08t091500-2017-06-08t170000/introduction-s... |
| Description | Introduction to the SLS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Robin Frost, SLS Project Manager presented an Introduction to the SLS in the National Records of Scotland, Ladywell House on 27th June 2017 in relation to NRS Introduction to Statistical Areas. The audience comprised 12 Scottish Government Statisticians. The aim was to raise knowledge of SLS operations within NRS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Introduction to the SLS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Robin Frost, SLS Project Manager, gave a presentation on the SLS in the Scottish Government Building at St Andrews House Edinburgh on 20th June 2017, in relation to a visit of South Korean Statistics Unit. The audience comprised Korean statisticians and 3 Scottish Government statisticians. The purpose of the presentation was to exchange knowledge with South Korean Team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Introduction to the SLS (Dibben, C; CPC Data Workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CPC Data Workshop: Exploring synergies in data with a focus on fertility, the UK and Italy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introduction-to-the-sls/ |
| Description | Introduction to the SLS - BBC Scotland Newsdesk presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Robin Frost, SLS Project Manager wrote a presentation which was presented by the National Records of Scotland staff on behalf of SLS, as part of a suite of presentations about the work of NRS and its partners for the BBC Scotland Newsdesk on 17th August 2017. The presentation was to an audience of BBC journalists at Atlantic Quay, Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Introduction to the SLS - National Records of Scotland Blog Post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog Post "The Scottish Longitudinal Study" Date: 17/7/17 Presenter Robin Frost Robin Frost, SLS Project Manager wrote a blog for a National Records of Scotland intranet blog series on 17th July 2017. The audience comprised National Records of Scotland staff and the aim was to raise awareness of SLS operations within NRS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Introduction to the SLS one day workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A one day workshop to introduce the Scottish Longitudinal Study to an audience of University of Edinburgh staff, ADRC staff, Scottish Government staff and postgraduate students. The workshop, led by Dr Lee Williamson was held on 7th June 2017 in the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/about/events/2017-06-07t093000-2017-06-07t163000/introduction-s... |
| Description | Introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study (BSG 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster promoting the Scottish Longitudinal Study at British Society of Gerontology 43rd Annual Conference, University of Southampton, UK, 1 - 3 September 2014 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introduction-to-the-sls-6/ |
| Description | Introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study (HERON 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster promoting the Scottish Longitudinal Study at HERON 2014 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introduction-to-the-scottish-longitudinal-study/ |
| Description | Introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Scotland's Census Conf 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Poster promoting the Scottish Longitudinal Study at Scotland's Census Conference - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/introduction-to-the-sls-5/ |
| Description | Jews in Scotland's Censuses (Raab, G.; Edinburgh Star) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on SLS research written up as article in newspaper for Edinburgh Jewish community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/jews-in-scotlands-censuses/ |
| Description | Joint hands-on training session for the three UK Census Longitudinal Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop aiming to promote the Longitudinal Studies through hands-on working and presentations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/joint-hands-on-training-session-for-the-three-uk-census-longitudinal... |
| Description | Know Thyself: Utilising routinely collected data to gain insight into the social determinants of nurses' health (Kyle, R., Dibben, C. & Atherton, I.; RCN annual conf 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference and Exhibition 2015, Nottingham, 20 - 22 April 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/know-thyself-utilising-routinely-collected-data-to-gain-insight-into... |
| Description | LSCS presence at Scottish Government Policy Events: Evidence in Policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | LSCS had a stall at the Scottish Government Evidence in Policy week in Edinburgh and Glasgow on 8th and 10th November 2016 respectively. Team member Angela Fallon manned the stall, liaising with Scottish Government members of staff to answer questions on the SLS and make available a selection of SLS Projects Research and Impact briefs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Long term health effects of NEET experiences presentation at the International Population Data Linkage Conference 2016, 24-26 August, 2016, Swansea, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Zhiqiang Feng was presenting 'Long term health effects of NEET experiences: evidence from a longitudinal analysis of young people in Scotland (Feng, Z, Ralston, K, Everington, D, and Dibben, C) at the International Population Data Linkage Conference 2016, 24-26 August, 2016, Swansea, UK. The event offered a platform to share scientific talks, rapid fire sessions and multimedia posters. The signficant focus of the event was the data linkage landscape in the UK and Dr Feng's presentation generated much interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://ipdlnconference2016.org/Programme/Workshops |
| Description | Low birth-weight and exposure to ambient PM10 air pollution : some preliminary findings (Clemens, T) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presentation: Department of Geography & Sustainable Development seminar series - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/low-birth-weight-and-exposure-to-ambient-pm10-air-pollution-some-pre... |
| Description | Low birth-weight and exposure to ambient PM10 air pollution : some preliminary findings (Clemens, T) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at staff research away day, Department of Geography & Sustainable Development - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/low-birth-weight-and-exposure-to-ambient-pm10-air-pollution-some-pre... |
| Description | Maternal residence in urban, rural and island communities and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Scotland (Clemens, T.; Vancouver) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at 16th International Medical Geography Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 6 - 10 July 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/maternal-residence-in-urban-rural-and-island-communities-and-the-ris... |
| Description | Migration and religion in Scotland : a study on the relationship between religion and migration behaviour (Feijten et al ICPG 2009) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 5th International Conference on Population Geographies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, 6 - 9 August 2009 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/migration-and-religion-in-scotland-a-study-on-the-relationship-betwe... |
| Description | Modelling standard grade attainment using the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Playford, C., Williamson, L. & Dibben, C.; NCRM/Pathways workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at NCRM Pathways & SLS-DSU workshop: 'Social disadvantage, child health and attainment: The potential of analyses of the UK census-based longitudinal studies', Edinburgh, 5 June 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/modelling-standard-grade-attainment-using-the-scottish-longitudinal-... |
| Description | NEETs in Scotland: a longitudinal analysis of long-term health effects of the NEET experience, Feng, Z, Everington, D, Ralston, K and Dibben, C, Understanding Society Scientific Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Understanding Society Scientific Conference, University of Essex, Essex, July 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/scientific-conference-2015 |
| Description | Poster Presentation 'An Introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS)' at British Society of Population Studies (BSPS), Univ of Winchester, UK, 12 - 14 September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster presenation of 'An Introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS)' by Carsley, S., Williamson, L. & Cox, F. (2016) British Society of Population Studies (BSPS), Univ of Winchester, UK, 12 - 14 September 2016. This poster introduces the SLS and the datasets, the application process for researchers interested in using the SLS and outline research examples. The 2016 BSPS conference presented an excellent opportunity to highlight the data that is available to help researchers decide whether the SLS is an appropriate resource for their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/Researchcentresandgroups/BSPS/annualConference/2016-Conference-Win... |
| Description | Presentation at ADRN Conference 2016 on NEETS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of 'A longitudinal analysis of health effects of NEET experiences in Scotland, 2001-2011' by Feng, Z., Ralston, K., Everington, D. & Dibben, C. (2016) Administrative Data Research Network Annual Conference 2016, Friends House, London, UK. 3 June 2016 Output from SLS Project 2013_005 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.adrn.ac.uk/media/1249/adrnconf16programme.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at ADRN Conference 2017 on 'How can we better understand internal migration?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | SLS Project Researcher, Annemarie Ernsten gave a presentation on 'How can we better understand internal migration?' Ernsten, A., McCollum, D., Feng, Z., Everington, D. & Huang, Z. (2017) UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 2 June 2017. The event provided an opportunity to showcase the SLS whilst promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | Presentation at ADRN Conference June 2017 on Childhood cognitive function and later-life economic activity: Linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to administrative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation by SLS Researcher Matthew Iveson on Childhood cognitive function and later-life economic activity: Linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to administrative data. Iveson, M., Deary, I.J. & Dibben, C. (2017) UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 2 June 2017. The event provided an opportunity to showcase the SLS as well as promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | Presentation at ADRN Conference June 2017 on Long term illness and reported mental health conditions during recession: exploring evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation by SLS Project Researcher Sarah Curtis on 'Long term illness and reported mental health conditions during recession: exploring evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study' Curtis, S., Pearce, J. & Dibben, C. (2017) UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 2 June 2017. The event provided an opportunity to showcase the SLS whilst promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | Presentation at ADRN Conference June 2017 on Why do escalator regions increase upward social mobility? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation by SLS Project Researcher Lynne Forrest on 'Why do escalator regions increase upward social mobility? Linkage of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 with Scottish Longitudinal Study data and Census' Forrest, L., Dibben, C., Feng, Z., Deary, I. & Popham, F. (2017) UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 2 June 2017. The event provided an opportunity to showcase the SLS whilst promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | Presentation at AQMen International Conference - Rediscovering Inequalities, Edinburgh 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dawn Everington presentated on behalf of the LSCS at the AQMen International Conference, 26-27 October 2016, University of Edinburgh; 'Risk factors for young people not being in education, employment or training (NEET): Longitudinal analyses over a 10 year follow up period' Dawn Everington, Zhiqiang Feng, Kevin Ralston and Chris Dibben The aim of the conference was to offer a forum for researchers, policy makers and practitioners to discuss and debate contemporary issues about the nature and impact of inequalities which arise in a variety of interconnected policy contexts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://aqmen.ac.uk/AQMeNConference2016 |
| Description | Presentation at Data Linkage Scotland Showcase 2016 (29th November 2016). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Playford, C.J., Dibben, C., Williamson, L. and Huang, Z. (2016) New ways of exploring links between educational and developmental outcomes. Data Linkage Scotland Showcase 2016 (29th November 2016). An opportunity to showcase Scotland's research strengths, support services and opportunities in cross-sectoral data linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.farrinstitute.org/events-courses/event/data-linkage-scotland-showcase-2016 |
| Description | Presentation at the Opening Ceremony of The Farr Institute Scotland and The Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Investigating educational and developmental outcomes using linked administrative data by Playford, C. (2016) Farr Institute/ADRC-Scotland Opening Ceremony, Univ of Edinburgh, UK, 29 February 2016 involving C Dibben and L Williamson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.farrinstitute.org/news/opening-ceremony-in-scotland-big-data-initiative-set-to-make-impac... |
| Description | Protective effects of nurses' health literacy: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Atherton, I., Dibben, C. & Kyle, R.; CALLS Hub LS Roadshow, Aberdeen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at CALLS Hub UK LS Roadshow, Univ of Aberdeen, 26 October 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/protective-effects-of-nurses-health-literacy-evidence-from-the-scott... |
| Description | Risk factors and consequences of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET): Phase two interim report (Ralston, K, Everington, D, Dibben, C & Feng, Z; Presentation to Scottish Govt) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/risk-factors-and-consequences-of-young-people-not-in-education-emplo... |
| Description | Risk factors of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET): Longitudinal analyses over a 10 year follow up period (Everington, Ralston, Feng & Dibben; Journal of Youth Studies Conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Journal of Youth Studies Conference, Copenhagen 31 March - 1 April 2015, which generated interest in the SLS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/risk-factors-of-young-people-not-in-education-employment-or-training... |
| Description | SLS Training Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Training Seminar focused on introducing the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) and the types of research that can be done with it. Examples of current and past research projects using the SLS were given to demonstrate the scope of the research that can be undertaken using the SLS. Additionally, developments within the support unit were described in the seminar including bespoke synthetic data extracts, eDataShield and the new data sources of the 1936 Birth Cohort and historical postcode data. The Training Seminar was led by Dr Lee Williamson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sls-training-seminar-tickets-39218039211# |
| Description | SLS presented in the CALLS Hub/UK Data Service Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fiona Cox of SLS and CALLS Hub took part in a joint webinar in May 2017 with the UK Data Service on 'Flexible individual-level data from the Census: Census micro data and longitudinal studies', introducing the census-based longitudinal studies (ONS LS, NILS and SLS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) (Williamson, L & Dibben, C; BSPS 2012) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster promoting the Scottish Longitudinal Study at BSPS 2012 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/scottish-longitudinal-study-sls-poster-presentation/ |
| Description | Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) (Williamson, L & Dibben, C; ESRC Festival of Soc Sci 2012) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2012 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/scottish-longitudinal-study-sls/ |
| Description | Social Inequalities in Avoidable Mortality: What works and why? (Pevalin, D) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar, Lismore, Australia - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/social-inequalities-in-avoidable-mortality-what-works-and-why/ |
| Description | Social Inequality and Avoidable Mortality in the U.K. (Pevalin, D) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Social class inequalities in premature all-cause mortality are well documented in the UK. This study situates the analysis of three large cohort studies within Link and Phelan's "fundamental cause" hypothesis and examines the social class differences in two aspects of avoidable mortality - preventable causes and causes amenable to medical intervention. Data come from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) Longitudinal Study for England and Wales baseline 1971 census; Scottish Longitudinal Study baseline 1991 census; and Northern Ireland Mortality Study baseline 2001. Death records are linked to census data and Cox regression models are used to estimate hazard ratios. - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/social-inequality-and-avoidable-mortality-in-the-u-k/ |
| Description | Social inequalities and changing transitions to home ownership among young adults in Scotland over two decades (Graham, Fiori & Feng; Workshop on UK Population Change and Housing Across the Life Course) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to Workshop on UK Population Change and Housing Across the Life Course, University of St Andrews, UK, 16 - 17 June 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/social-inequalities-and-changing-transitions-to-home-ownership-among... |
| Description | Stability and change in ethnic groups in Scotland (Feng, Z & Dibben, C; SLS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/stability-and-change-in-ethnic-groups-in-scotland/ |
| Description | Survival Analysis Course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Gillian Raab and Dawn Everington taught a course on 'Introduction to Survival Analysis' on 28th June 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. This was a one-day workshop on survival analysis for time to event data. The course was intended for postgraduate students, academics and health or social researchers interested in learning how to do survival analysis in a statistical package. The course was fully subscribed with requests for further courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Susan Carsley presented an 'Introduction to the SLS' at Scotland's Census Output Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UK Data Service event at the University of Edinburgh 30th June 2016. Susan Carsley presented on 'The Scottish Longitudinal Study' at Scotland's Census Output Workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/eventsdocs/scottishoutputs30jun2016 |
| Description | Synthetic Data Estimation for the UK Longitudinal Studies (Nowok, B, Raab, G & Dibben, C; SLS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/synthetic-data-estimation-for-the-uk-longitudinal-studies-sylls-3/ |
| Description | Synthetic Data Estimation for the UK Longitudinal Studies (SYLLS) (Dennett, A; ONS LS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Great interest amongst audience and online (twitter) - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/synthetic-data-estimation-for-the-uk-longitudinal-studies-sylls-2/ |
| Description | Synthetic Data Estimation for the UK Longitudinal Studies - SYLLS (Nowok, B, Raab, G & Dibben, C; SLS Linkage Launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | SLS Linkage Launch for 2011 Census data, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/synthetic-data-estimation-for-the-uk-longitudinal-studies-sylls-3/ |
| Description | Synthetic data estimation for the UK LongitudinaL Studies - SYLLS (Dennett, A; NILS launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/synthetic-data-estimation-for-the-uk-longitudinal-studies-sylls/ |
| Description | Synthetic data estimation for the UK Longitudinal Studies - an introduction to the SYLLS project (Dennett, A, Wu, B & Nowok, B; BSPS 2013 Poster) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster promoting new synthetic data methodology - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/synthetic-data-estimation-for-the-uk-longitudinal-studies-an-introdu... |
| Description | Synthetic data estimation for the UK Longitudinal Studies: An introduction to the Multiple Imputation approach (Nowok, B) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/synthetic-data-estimation-for-the-uk-longitudinal-studies-sylls-proj... |
| Description | Tenure change in Scotland (Freeke, J; ASS briefing paper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/tenure-change-in-scotland/ |
| Description | The 'art' of cohort and study construction in administrative datasets: examples from Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lee Williamson presented on ' The 'art' of cohort and study construction in administrative datasets: examples from Scotland' at the UK Administrative Data Research Network Annual Research Conference held on 1-2 June 2017 in Edinburgh. The event provided a great showcase for research from the SLS study. The conference included a series of sessions sponsored by CALLS Hub, promoting the use of census longitudinal studies and/or population linkage studies to contribute to the substantive themes of health/mortality inequality or migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/research-blog/ |
| Description | The ADRC-S & Future Developments (Dibben; Scottish Longitudinal Study Census Linkage Launch Event 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Scottish Longitudinal Study Census Linkage Launch Event, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 4 November 2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/the-adrc-s-future-developments/ |
| Description | The Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) Beta tests (Borowski, E, Dibben, C, Feng, Z, Frank, F, Graham, E, Raab, G, Ralston, K, Walker, S & Williamson, L; ONS LS launch poster) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Increased website traffic, new Twitter followers - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/the-scottish-longitudinal-study-sls-beta-tests/ |
| Description | The long-term impacts of NEET experiences on health: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (Feng, Z, Graham, E, Ralston, K, Raab, G & Dibben, C; BSPS 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at BSPS 2014 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/the-long-term-impacts-of-neet-experiences-on-health-evidence-from-th... |
| Description | To downsize or not? Housing adjustment at older ages in Scotland since 1991 (Fiori, F, Graham, E & Feng, Z) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at BSPS Annual Conference 2014, Univ of Winchester, 8 - 10 September 2014 - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/to-downsize-or-not-housing-adjustment-at-older-ages-in-scotland-sinc... |
| Description | Training and information session for synthpop synthetic data package (Nowok, B, Raab, G & Dibben, C; Titchfield, June 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Training and information session for ONS LS and CeLSIUS teams about how synthpop works and how it can be used ONS continue to be interested in the synthpop package and are now trialling it with a test ONS LS project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/generating-synthetic-microdata-using-the-synthpop-package/ |
| Description | Understanding the impact of air pollution at the start of life: using geographic variation in air pollution, census and administrative data to measure air pollution's impact on the unborn child (Dibben; University of Southampton 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Geography and Environment Dept Seminar, University of Southampton, UK, 9 December 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/understanding-the-impact-of-air-pollution-at-the-start-of-life-using... |
| Description | Understanding the impact of fertility history and associated outcomes in mid-life: a record linkage study in Scotland (Williamson, L, Dibben, C & Huang, Z) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/understanding-the-impact-of-fertility-history-and-associated-outcome... |
| Description | Understanding the impact of fertility history on health outcomes in later life (Williamson, L & Dibben, C; Census Conference 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Census Conference, Cathie Marsh Centre Manchester, July 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/2015-census-conference/abstracts#williamson |
| Description | Understanding the impact of fertility history on health outcomes in later life (Williamson, L & Dibben, C; SLS linkage launch) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/output-entry/understanding-the-impact-of-fertility-history-on-health-outcomes-in-... |
| Description | Webinar on 'An exploration of educational outcomes for children with disabilities' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | F. Cox & A Marshall, of the Census & Administrative data Longitudinal Studies Hub (CALLS) produced webinars to introduce researchers to some of the key ways in which the Longitudinal Studies can be used. The webinar explaisn what is available as well as highlighting key research examples. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://calls.ac.uk/guides-resources/thematic-guides-webinars/ |