Sports datasets available in ISSDA
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This presentation covers the background to the Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA), some of the sports related datasets that are available, how to access these data and tip to researchers using these data for secondary analysis.
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Sports datasets available in ISSDA
- 1. IRISH SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVE (ISSDA) Jenny O’Neill, Data Manager
- 2. www.ucd.ie/issda • Background • Datasets in ISSDA • How to access data • Advice to researchers
- 6. Background • Provides a central access point for quantitative social science / public health data produced in Ireland; for research purposes • Ensures wider access to datasets • Facilitates secondary analysis • Facilitates the wider acquisition of data analysis skills – teaching as well as research use www.ucd.ie/issda
- 7. Background • Content • Service • Preservation www.ucd.ie/issda
- 10. Background 2000 2012 2016 Future www.ucd.ie/issda
- 11. Background www.ucd.ie/issda • Proactive promotion • Repository infrastructure • Projects
- 12. Datasets www.ucd.ie/issda • Quantitative • Anonymous • Formats: SPSS, SAS, Stata, CSV, Excel • Documentation • Data checking: CSTAR
- 13. Datasets: The Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity Study (CSPPA) www.ucd.ie/issda • Provide a national database of physical activity, physical education and sport participation levels of children and youth in Ireland • Assess indices of health and fitness in a sub-sample of the target population • Collect and analyse information on the factors influencing participation • Provide insight into issues surrounding volunteering in youth sports and activity clubs • Primary & Post Primary data in SPSS • www.ucd.ie/issda/csppa
- 14. Datasets: Irish Sports Monitor 2011 & 2013 www.ucd.ie/issda • Provides information on active participation in sport and physical activity, club membership, volunteering and attendance at sporting events among a representative sample of adults (aged 16+) in the Republic of Ireland. • 2011 & 2013 data in SPSS • Available May 2016 • www.ucd.ie/issda/irishsportsmonitor
- 15. Datasets www.ucd.ie/issda • All Ireland Traveller Health Study (AITHS) • Eurostudent Survey III, IV & V • Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) • Healthy Ireland • School Leavers Survey • Survey on Lifestyle and Attitude to Nutrition (SLÁN) • The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA)
- 16. Accessing data www.ucd.ie/issda • Identify the dataset(s) you require • Complete the request form • Email the signed consent form
- 17. Accessing data www.ucd.ie/issda • Identify the dataset(s) you require • Complete the request form • Email the signed consent form
- 18. Accessing data www.ucd.ie/issda • Identify the dataset(s) you require • Complete the request form • Email the signed consent form
- 19. Tips Data not collected to answer your specific research questions www.ucd.ie/issda
- 22. Thank you! • Jenny O’Neill • jenny.oneill@ucd.ie • www.ucd.ie/issda • @ISSDA www.ucd.ie/issda
Editor's Notes
- Acquire datasets from producers – Maintain and build relationships with key data providers Increasingly research grants are awarded on condition that data are deposited with an appropriate archive – part of the changing landscape that is “Open Access” Anonymised Make datasets available to users Promoting ISSDA and specific datasets Presentations, webpages, twitter Supporting users – application process, queries, referrals to data providers Preserve datasets for future use
- ISSDA main sources of data CSO ESRI Major research projects Commission for Energy Regulation
- Included were questions on sports and leisure activities, participation in sporting activities, participation in exercise and sport.
- Contact details – Datasets requested – Intended use of data – Register of use – Persons permitted to use the data
- Therefore particular information you would like to have may not have been collected May not have been collected in the geographic region you want to study Or in the years you would have chosen Or on the specific population that is the focus of your interest Variables may have been defined or categorised differently than you would have chosen e.g. Race only as White / Other (rather than specific ethnicity)
- Therefore particular information you would like to have may not have been collected May not have been collected in the geographic region you want to study Or in the years you would have chosen Or on the specific population that is the focus of your interest Variables may have been defined or categorised differently than you would have chosen e.g. Race only as White / Other (rather than specific ethnicity)