Survey data can be a great option for a dissertation project. From the UK Data Service, you can access data from representative samples of the population on a wide range of topics.

Find out more about using survey data in a dissertation.

You can also see our quick start guides to top surveys for dissertation projects.

• Quick start guide: British Social Attitudes (BSA)

• Quick start guide: Health Survey for England (HSE)

• Quick start guide: Community Life Survey (CLS)

• Quick start guide: Understanding Society COVID-19 Teaching Dataset.

Finding the right data for your project

How do you find the right data for your project? Our resources on how to find data for your project cover ways to search and evaluate data as well as all you need to know about registration and access conditions.

• Finding and accessing data for your project.

Other useful resources

Recordings of webinars for dissertation students:

• Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

• Webinar: Data for dissertations.

Try our data skills modules to learn more about data and how it can be used. These online interactive resources are for users who want to get to grips with key aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data.

Need help with software? We have guides to major software used to manage and analyse data on our software and tools section including introductory guides to SPSS, Stata and R.

Working with survey, census, qualitative or aggregate data? Explore our learning hub to find resources to help with each of these data types.

Our YouTube channel includes tutorials and recordings of webinars and workshops (for example our using SPSS playlist and workshop on mapping crime data in R).

Using survey data

Finding and