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- BLOG - Access to secure data during the COVID-19 pandemic - a model for the future?
- COVID-19 and Care Homes: Advances in Administrative Data Research during the pandemic
- Deprivation and informal care at the end of life
- NEWS - Innovative new residential linkage tool launched
- BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home- No.4
- NEWS - New report warns of deepening poverty crisis for Scottish families
- New report on Infants Born into Care in Scotland
- Spotlight on Dr Elizabeth Lemmon
- Spotlight on Jan Savinc
- Youth Movements, Social Mobility and Health Inequalities
- BLOG - The value of social science and administrative data research in Scotland: how we are helping respond to COVID-19
- Exploring illegal drug consignments in Scotland
- Linking two administrative data sets about looked after children
- NEWS – ADR Scotland data ambassadors launched
- Virtual Conference - Data Linkage: Information to Impact
- BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home
- BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home- No.3
- Investigating the effects of class composition and class size on pupils’ attainment in Scottish primary schools
- NEWS - New opportunity to join ADR Scotland’s Public Panel
- Selective schools: do they improve health?
- NEWS - Understanding the dynamics of the nursing workforce: the potential of routinely collected data
- Webinar - An Introduction to Looked-After Children Dataset
- BLOG: Developing a cross-national research agenda on crime and convictions
- Homelessness duration in Scotland: how long does rehousing take?
- Spotlight on Dr Evan Williams
- Spotlight on Fernando Pantoja
- The health and economic benefits of active commuting in Scotland
- Analysing a season of death and excess mortality in Scotland’s past
- BLOG - AGEING AND HOMELESSNESS IN SCOTLAND
- BLOG: Can we use linked administrative data to identify social disadvantage?
- EVENT - ADR UK Virtual Half Day event
- Event - Public data for public good: towards better understanding children's lives
- NEWS - Data research initiative secures £90 m funding extension
- NEWS: Our role supporting the new COVID-19 research data service in Scotland
- BLOG - An Inside Job: Using Criminology, Police Data and a Lot of Nouse
- BLOG - Location of death in 2020: a changing trend from hospitals to homes
- BLOG - Seeking feedback on Research Data Scotland’s core principles via our public panel
- BLOG - What skills, training and support are required by those wishing a career as an administrative data researcher?
- BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home - No. 6
- BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home- No.5
- BLOG: 5 things I've learnt about working with policymakers...
- BLOG: Automating Coding for Large Historical Datasets
- BLOG: COVID-19- How increased deaths at home impact the carer community
- EVENT - 'Getting things done with data in government'
- EVENT - Linking public sector data for research: an ADR UK showcase event
- EVENT - RDS data application process: User testing session
- EVENT Seminar - Administrative data for social policy research: potential and pitfalls
- NEWS - Additional funding for Understanding Children’s Lives and Outcomes
- NEWS: Police use of Fixed Penalty Notices under the Covid-19 regulations in Scotland: A new data report highlights links with deprivation and inequality
- NEWS: Police use of the new Covid-19 powers: Using administrative data to analyse and evaluate practice
- Postal deliveries of drugs in Scotland
- Research Data Scotland - New user forum
- Spotlight on Dr Patricio Troncoso
- Directorship of the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) for 2021-22.
- BLOG: In the light of experience: InterRAI and the final thousand days of life
- Multiple health conditions and social care
- NEWS - Susan McVie elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- SCADR relocates to the Bayes Centre
- EVENT: Four day introduction to using administrative data for social and health research
- BLOG: The value of administrative data: DALYs and the Scottish Burden of Disease study
- BLOG: Where to start with parliamentary and policy engagement
- EVENT - International Conference on Administrative Data Research, Cardiff
- EVENT - Using data to realise the potential of the 'Last 1000 days'
- EVENT: TalkingData: ADR Scotland mini-summit
- EVENT: “Let’s use data to save time, money and lives”: ADR Scotland partners gather for mini-summit
- EVENTS: ADR Scotland researchers present at international conference in Cardiff
Resources
A range of resources including data hubs, guides and other useful tools and methods to help support administrative data research.
General
- An introduction to data linkage (ADRN)
- Data quality issues in administrative data (developed for Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN)
- Blog - A Researcher's Experiences of Administrative Data Research
Covid-19
- CLOSER’s Covid-19 Longitudinal Research Hub
- Covid-19 Research Data Service in Scotland
- HDR UK’s Covid-19 Research Question Submission Portal
- National Records Scotland Covid-19 Statistics
- LTCCovid - Community and institutional long-term care responses to Covid-19
Data Profiles and Descriptors
- Data Resource Profile: The Scottish Social Care Survey (SCS) and the Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC)
- Data Resource Profile: The Scottish National Prescribing Information System
- Dataset Description: Postal delivery of illegal consignments into Scotland, National Crime Agency
GitHub and Coding
- GitHub - Health and Social Care in Scotland, Public Health Scotland methods
- Integrating Git and GitHub into your daily work with R - Happy Git
- GitHub - Urban Big Data Centre
- Teaching 'R' online
Information Governance
- Blogpost - The Whys and Hows of Applying to PBPP (HSC-PBPP Application)
- Royal Society report - The UK data governance landscape
- Legal issues for ADRN users
- Ensuring the confidentiality of statistical outputs from ADRN
Methods and Software
- eDataShield method: paper and presentation
- Synthpop package for R
- CLOSER Learning Hub – Analysing longitudinal data module including regression analysis, multi-level and growth-curve modelling and survival analysis
Public Engagement
- ADR UK literature review on Trust, security and public interest
- Developing a public engagement strategy (ADRN)
- Considering Public Good in Research and Statistics: Ethics Guidance
For Training resources please visit our Training webpage.
For our Researcher Handbook please click here.
