Accessing and using TILDA data, available through Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA), Using publicly archived TILDA datasets. Delivered by TILDA in conjunction with the Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) and Gateway to Global Aging.

1. Irish
Social Science
Data Archive
ISSDA
Jenny O'Neill, Data Manager,
UCD Library
www.ucd.ie/issda/tilda/

2. O V E R V I E W
Background
Data Services
Services for Researchers
Accessing TILDA Data
www.ucd.ie/issda/tilda/

3. IRISH
SOCIAL
SCIENCE
DATA
ARCHIVE
ISSDA is
Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data
acquisition, preservation, and dissemination.
Based at UCD Library, its mission is to ensure wide
access to quantitative datasets in the social
sciences, and to advance the promotion of
international comparative studies of the Irish
economy and Irish society.

4. 2000ISSDA was set up in 2000
in the Geary Institute in
UCD with support from
the CSO & ESRI.
ISSDA transferred from
the Geary Institute to UCD
Library during the
summer of 2012.
20162012
B A C K G R O U N D
A Data Manager for ISSDA
was hired, highlighting
UCD Library's
continuing commitment
to ISSDA.

5. C O M P A N Y . C O M
DATA
SERVICES

6. PROFESSIONALLY
CURATED
All data disseminated by
ISSDA have undergone
rigorous checks to ensure
that they are of a high
quality.
ISSDA enhances data
through the creation of
metadata based the Data
Documentation Initiative
(DDI) .
PRESERVEDENHANCED WITH
METADATA
D A T A A R E
ISSDA is committed to
maintaining data resources
for the long term, ensuring
that the archive’s holdings
are always available in
easily accessible forms.

7. DISSEMINATED VIA A
NATIONAL PLATFORM
All data disseminated by
ISSDA have undergone
rigorous checks to ensure
that they are of a high
quality.
ISSDA holds a range of key
Irish and international
comparative datasets, and
makes them available for
secondary analysis by
students, academics, and
researchers in the public
and commercial sectors.
ENCRYPTEDDISSEMINATED
UNDER LICENCE
D A T A A R E
ISSDA uses tools to ensure
that data are encrypted at
ingest and delivery.
We use HEAnet FileSender
to deliver data to
researchers.

8. DIGITAL OBJECT
IDENTIFIERS
ISSDA will roll out Digital
Object Identifiers
(DOIs) for both data and
documentation in the
future.
Nesstar is a software
system for data publishing
and online analysis. Users
can search, browse and
analyse the data online.
NESSTAR
F U T U R E S E R V I C E S

9. C O M P A N Y . C O M
SERVICES
FOR
RESEARCHERS

10. Request data
01
Researchers submit an application
form to ISSDA. This describes which
data are required, who will be using
the data and what the intended use of
the data is.
The End User License is signed by the
primary user, who is bound by the
terms of the licence.
www.ucd.ie/issda/tilda/
Researchers can

11. Submit queries
02
ISSDA supports the re-use of data by
handling researcher queries via
email. General queries are handled
by our Library Assistant.
Data specific queries, including those
relating to variables or methodology,
are forwarded to the Data Provider,
if necessary, by the Data Manager.
Researchers can

12. Register of Use
03
ISSDA manages a register of use for two
studies – Growing up in Ireland (GUI) and
The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing
(TILDA). Each register is organised around
research themes according to the research
projects that have/are being carried out.
http://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/tilda/tildareg/
Researchers can be included in the

13. Workshops
04
To help researchers re-use data
successfully ISSDA is developing a
series of workshops.
So far we have organised a workshop
on 'Anonymising Research Data' with
CRNINI.
Researchers can attend

14. C O M P A N Y . C O M
ACCESSING
TILDA
DATA

15. Identify the dataset(s)
you require
Complete the relevant
request form
Send the signed consent
form to issda@ucd.ie
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16. Documentation
Release Guide
Project reports
Questionnaires
Codedebook
Anonymisation Actions
Start with
Waves 1&2

17. Citation &
Acknowledgement
It is a requirement of both TILDA
(see Release Guide v2.2, p34) and
ISSDA (see ISSDA_Application_
Research_V2.3, section 8) that data
are cited in any work based on the
data.
End with

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