Census workshop: health and ethnicity
Census workshop: health and ethnicity – using Samples of Anonymised Records and ONS Longitudinal Study
Time: 10.00-15.45
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2009
Place: Level 3A/3B, Main Building, City University, Northampton Square,
London, EC1V 0HB
Booking: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=2174
Rachel Stuchbury, Julian Buxton and Christopher Marshall from the Centre for
Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CelSIUS) will introduce the
Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, with a focus on health and
ethnicity, discussing data sources and structure, offering suggestions for
research topics and designs, showing how to access the data and giving
participants an opportunity to explore the data for themselves using two
teaching datasets, on ethnicity and limiting long term illness respectively.
Jo Wathan and Selvino deKort from the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and
Survey Research, Manchester University will talk about the Samples of
Anonymised Records (SARs) from the 2001 Census. These are a family of
datasets for one census point only. In this presentation and hands-on session
they will introduce the data and show how they can be used to look at health
for different ethnic groups. The hands-on session will enable participants to
use the data themselves using online tools and SPSS. Further information
about the data can be obtained at http://sars.census.ac.uk.
There are now three census-based record linkage studies covering all
constituent parts of the UK, the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal
Study (ONS LS) covering England and Wales (established in the mid 1970s);
the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) and the Northern Ireland Longitudinal
Study (NILs), both of which were launched in 2007. Harriet Young from the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will talk about a project to
develop methods and procedures for carrying out parallel and combined
analyses of these three studies. An exemplar research project is used to
analyse the association between self-reported health and long-term illness in
the 2001 census and subsequent mortality in all three studies. Here, she will
present the results of this research to date.
This workshop will include an introduction to the data services offered by
Census.ac.uk and is aimed at those studying or working in the UK higher and
further education sector, but is not limited to those already registered to use
the census.
The workshop is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. However
travel and accommodation costs will need to be met by the participants.