Citing the SARs

Its always great to see research using the Samples of Anonymised Records in print.

Publications using the 2001 Household Special Licensed SAR should contain the following acknowledgement:

The 2001 SARs are provided through the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (University of Manchester) and the UK Data Archive (University of Essex), with the support of the ESRC and JISC. All tables containing Census data, and the results of analysis, are reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

To cite a SAR file use the following format:

Office for National Statistics (2006) 2001 United Kingdom Sample of Anonymised Records, Household Special Licensed File [computer file] distributed by the UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Data from the SARs remain Crown copyright.

Please let us know at sars-helpdesk@man.ac.uk if you publish using the data. This information is required by the terms of our agreement with the Office for National Statistics and helps us to justify the continued availability of SAR data. Registered users do receive reminders to do this as part of our regular pubtrawl.