Keeping Track
A guide to longitudinal resources
This site aims to provide an up-to-date guide to major longitudinal sources of data. The central purpose of this site is to allow users to see what kinds of longitudinal data are available and to locate information about studies which may provide data useful to their research interests.
The site covers data sets collected by governmental, academic, private social research, medical and private industrial sources. This site includes household panel surveys, studies following the health of individuals, birth cohort studies, studies following the quality of a product design, and administrative records. Users of this site can find out basic details of the purpose, methodology, timing, coverage, and availability of the longitudinal data sets covered here. The site also offers links to the web pages of individual studies, and provides contact details for people wishing to get more information about any particular study.
This site thus serves as a first reference point and signpost to existing sources. The site designers hope to encourage greater use of longitudinal data.
This site developed from the joint efforts of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of the United Kingdom and the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC). The ULSC is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and is a part of the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.
The ONS and ISER initially sought to expand the awareness and usage of longitudinal resources produced in the UK. Thus, the initial development of this site focussed on British data. As the site expands, more data will be included from longitudinal studies collected around the world.
The following people initially developed this site:
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Nick Buck
Kimberly Fisher
Jonathan Gershuny
Catherine O'Hanlon
Robertas Pogorelis
Emanuela Sala
Jenifer Tucker
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Jumoke Ajayi
Rouslan Akhmadov
Ed Franklyn
Paul Allin
Catherine Barham
Steven Connor
Richard Laux
Craig Myers
Andrew Passey
Ed Watkins-Wright
| We welcome input from people working with longitudinal research. If you know updated information relating to a study included on this site or if you are familiar with a study we have not yet included, please contact us with details. |
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Users wishing to cite this website are asked to use the following form of words:
Fisher, Kimberly, Ajayi, Jumoke, Akhmadov, Rouslan, Linares, Rafael, O'Hanlon, Catherine, Pogorelis, Robertas, and Watkins-Wright, Ed. (last updated June 2004). 'Keeping Track, a Guide to Longitudinal Resources' This web-based database of longitudinal studies is maintained jointly by the UK Office for National Statistics and the Institute for Social and Economic Research. London: Office for National Statistics; Colchester: University of Essex.
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