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ESDS Government Acronyms

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A

AHDS : Arts and Humanities Data Service search
AHRC : Arts and Humanities Research Council search
ALAD : Annual Local Area Data search
ALSPAC : Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children search
APS : Annual Population Survey search
ARK : Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive search

B

BCS : British Crime Survey search
BCS70 : British Cohort Study search
BES : British Election Study search
BHPS : British Household Panel Survey search
BMI : Body Mass Index search
BMRB : British Market Research Bureau search
BSA : British Social Attitudes search

C

CAQDAS : Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software search
CASS : Centre for Applied Social Surveys search
CCSR : Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research search
CDU : Census Dissemination Unit search
CESSDA : Council of European Social Science Data Archives search
CHD : Coronary Heart Disease search
CHS : Continuous Household Survey search
CLS : Centre for Longitudinal Studies search
COICOP : Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose search
COMMONGIS : Interactive java based geographical information system search
CPS : Continuous Population Survey search
CRS : Census Registration Service search
CSU : Central Survey Unit search
CVD : Cardio-vascular Disease search

D

DCC : Digital Curation Centre search
DDI : Data Documentation Initiative search
DEFRA : Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs search
DETI : Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment search
DH : Department of Health search
DTD : Document Type Definition search
DTI : Department of Trade and Industry search
DWP : Department for Work and Pensions search

E

EFS : Expenditure and Food Survey search
ELSA : English Longitudinal Study of Ageing search
EMAR : Employment Market Analysis and Research search
EROHS : European Research Observatory for the Humanities and Social Sciences search
ESDS : Economic and Social Data Service search
ESF : European Strategy Forum search
ESFRI : European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure search
ESRC : Economic and Social Research Council search

F

FAO : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations search
FAQs : Frequently Asked Questions search
FES : Family Expenditure Survey search
FRS : Family Resources Survey search

G

GHS : General Household Survey search
GLF : General Lifestyle Survey (or IHS module) previously known as the General Household Survey search
GRO(S) : General Register Office for Scotland search

H

HASSET : Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus search
HBAI : Households Below Average Income search
HSE : Health Survey for England search
HSUG : Health Statistics User Group search

I

IASSIST : International Association of Social Science Service Technology search
IC : NHS Information Centre search
ICD : International Classification of Disease Codes search
ICPSR : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research search
IGO : Inter Government Organisations search
IHS : Integrated Household Survey search
ILO : International Labour Organisation search
IOTF : International Obesity Task Force search
IPR : Intellectual property rights search
ISER : Institute for Social and Economic Research search
ISIC : International Standard of Industrial Classification search
ITU : International Telecommunication Union search

J

JISC : Joint Information Systems Committee search
JISCMAIL : A mailing list service for sharing information by email search

L

LA : Local Authority search
LAD/TEC : Local Area Data/Training and Enterprise Council search
LCF : Living Costs and Food survey (or IHS module) previously known as the Expenditure and Foods Survey search
LFS : Labour Force Survey search
LS : Longitudinal Study search
LSRC : Legal Services Reform Centre search

M

MCS : Millennium Cohort Study search
MIMAS : Manchester Information and Associated Services search
MRC : Medical Research Council search
MRP : Microdata Release Panel search

N

NaCTeM : National Centre for text mining search
NATCEN : National Centre for Social Research search
NCDS : National Child Development Survey search
NCeSS : National Centre for e-Social Science search
NCRM : National Centre for Research Methods search
NERC : Natural Environment Research Council search
NeSS : Neighbourhood Statistics search
NESSTAR : Computer package to view, analyse, visualise, subset and download data from the UKDA web site search
NFS : National Food Survey search
NGO : Non-governmental organisations search
NHS : National Health Service search
NILTS : Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey search
NISA : Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey search
NISRA : Northern Ireland Research and Statistics Agency search
NS-SEC : National Statistics Socio-economic Classification search
NSDstat : A statistical analysis package search
NSHD : National Survey of Health and Development search
NSPSCA : National Social Policy and Social Change Archive search
NTS : National Travel Survey search

O

OAI-PMH : Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting search
OAIS : Open Archival Information System search
ODPM : Office of the Deputy Prime Minister search
OECD : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development search
OMN : Omnibus Survey search
ONS : Office for National Statistics search
OPN : Opinions survey (or IHS module) previously known as the Omnibus Survey search

P

PMCI : PubMed Central International search

Q

QLFS : Quarterly Labour Force Survey search

R

RELU : Rural Economy and Land Use Programme search
RES : Research and Evaluation Service search
RPI : Retail Price Index search
RTF : Rich Text Format search

S

SARs : Samples of Anonymised Records search
SAS : A statistical Snalysis package (previously 'Statistical Analysis System') search
SCJS : Scottish Crime and Justice Survey search
SCS : Scottish Crime Survey search
SCVS : Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey search
SETA : Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications search
SHE : Survey of English Housing search
SHeS : Scottish Health Survey search
SILC : Statistics on Income and Living Conditions search
SN : Study Number search
SOC : Standard Occupational Classification search
SOSIG : The old name for Intute: Social Sciences search
SPSS : Statistical analysis package search
SRA : Social Research Association search
SRN : Survey Resources Network search
SSA : Scottish Social Attitudes search
STATA : Statistical analysis package search

T

TNA : The National Archives search
TUS : Time Use Survey search

U

UA : Unitary Authority search
UKDA : UK Data Archive search
UKERC : UK Energy Research Centre search
UKMSS : UK Manuscript Submission System search
UKPMC : UK PubMed Central search
UKSA : United Kingdom Statistics Authority search
ULSC : United Kingdom Longitudinal Studies Centre search
UN : United Nations search
UNESCO : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization search

V

VML : Virtual Microdata Laboratory search
VS : ONS Vital Statistics search

W

WAG : Welsh Assembly Government search
WERS : Workplace Employment Relations Survey search
WHO : World Health Organisation search
WHS : Welsh Health Survey search
WORD : Wales Office for Research and Development in Health and Social Care search

X

X4L : JISC Exchange for Learning Programme search
XML : Extensible Mark-up Language search