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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. These data record facilities in Cambridgeshire villages, 1984 and 1987 Main Topics: Variables Number of shops, services, facilities in each parish. No sampling (total universe) Transcription of existing materials

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The purpose of this study was: 1. To estimate the number of visitor days to the 10 National Parks in England and Wales, the Broads and the New Forest (the term `Parks' refers to all 12 areas). 2. To provide information about the characteristics of visits to the Parks and the types of visitor coming to them. 3. To use, (for the first time), a comparable approach to surveying visitors in all the Parks in England and Wales. Main Topics: The characteristics of Park visitors; the nature of the visits; the reasons why people visit the Parks and views about services and facilities; visitors' expenditure; the scale of visits and how the number of visits varies throughout the year. Site survey; next to pass - member of group to have next birthday was interviewed. Roadside survey Face-to-face interview Postal survey Self-completion

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The research replicates a study of the activities and power of workplace union representatives already completed in the coal industry. The objectives of the study on the railway are as follows: 1. Firstly, to test further the methodology for the comparative analysis of workplace power developed in the coal study. 2. Using this methodology to identify the range and amount of power of Local Departmental Committee representatives (managers and `shop stewards') over workplace activity. 3. To compare their activities and power with that of local NUM representatives in the coal industry. 4. To compare the activities and power of the NUR Local Departmental Committee (LDC) representatives with those of ASLEF LDC representatives. 5. To identify the structural, economic and attitudinal factors related to their activities and their power in order to explore further the relationships identified in the coal industry study. Main Topics: Variables The data consists of a set of secondary variables created from a number of primary data sets:- (1) Measures of power derived from a decision analysis. (2) Measures of size, <i>performance</i>, industrial action from <i>background</i> data collected for each location. (3) A questionnaire on attitudes to work, union and the LDC., etc., sent to a sample of ordinary railmen (i.e. not LDC representatives). (4) Questionnaires sent to all LDC representatives on their role, relationships, attitudes, etc. (5) A questionnaire handed to a spokesman representative from each LDC concerning role, relationships, attitudes, etc. (6) A questionnaire handed to management chairman of LDCs concerning role, relationships, attitudes, etc (7) An interview schedule administered to the management chairman and LDC spokesman about their involvement and influence in decision making. Measurement Scales For measurements of power, see Edwards, C.Y., 'Measuring union power: a comparison of two methods applied to the study of local union power in the coal industry', <i>British Journal of Industrial Relations</i> V. 16 (1) 1978 and Edwards, C.Y., 'Power and decision making in the workplace: a study in the coal mining industry', <i>Industrial Relations Journal</i> V. 14 (1) 1983 Forty locations were chosen at random from five operational British Rail Regions. An attempt was m Face-to-face interview Postal survey

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) is an omnibus survey that collects data from respondents in Great Britain. Information is gathered on a range of subjects, commissioned both internally by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and by external clients (other government departments, charities, non-profit organisations and academia).One individual respondent, aged 16 or over, is selected from each sampled private household to answer questions. Data are gathered on the respondent, their family, address, household, income and education, plus responses and opinions on a variety of subjects within commissioned modules. Each regular OPN survey consists of two elements. Core questions, covering demographic information, are asked together with non-core questions that vary depending on the module(s) fielded.The OPN collects timely data for research and policy analysis evaluation on the social impacts of recent topics of national importance, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the cost of living. The OPN has expanded to include questions on other topics of national importance, such as health and the cost of living.For more information about the survey and its methodology, see the gov.uk OPN Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) webpage.Changes over timeUp to March 2018, the OPN was conducted as a face-to-face survey. From April 2018 to November 2019, the OPN changed to a mixed-mode design (online first with telephone interviewing where necessary). Mixed-mode collection allows respondents to complete the survey more flexibly and provides a more cost-effective service for module customers.In March 2020, the OPN was adapted to become a weekly survey used to collect data on the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of people of Great Britain. These data are held under Secure Access conditions in SN 8635, ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Covid-19 Module, 2020-2022: Secure Access. (See below for information on other Secure Access OPN modules.)From August 2021, as coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions were lifted across Great Britain, the OPN moved to fortnightly data collection, sampling around 5,000 households in each survey wave to ensure the survey remained sustainable. Secure Access OPN modulesBesides SN 8635 (the COVID-19 Module), other Secure Access OPN data includes sensitive modules run at various points from 1997-2019, including Census religion (SN 8078), cervical cancer screening (SN 8080), contact after separation (SN 8089), contraception (SN 8095), disability (SNs 8680 and 8096), general lifestyle (SN 8092), illness and activity (SN 8094), and non-resident parental contact (SN 8093). See the individual studies for further details and information on how to apply to use them. Main Topics: The non-core questions for this month were: Aviation (Module MAN): this new module was asked on behalf of the Department for Transport. Questions relate to how many flights respondents have taken in the past 12 months, the reasons why trips were made and how satisfied people were with various aspects of flying, such as the cost of flights and airport security. Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. To study the social and economic composition of Parliament (1852 - 1867) and the political behaviour of the men who sat in it. Main Topics: Variables Political party of respondent, whether married at time of election, nationality, date and place of birth, occupation, social class, whether titled, legal status, career history, office held, membership of clubs, details of elections fought and results, number of relatives involved in politics. Respondent's voting behaviour for issues between 1852 and 1867, for example: franchise, ballot procedures, church rates, Ireland, foreign policy, education, armed forces, taxes, etc. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research. 51 successful candidates 32 unsuccessful candidates Compilation or synthesis of existing material Compilation of published data plus materials from private papers etc.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The objective of the research was to produce comprehensive and consistent national data on the provision of services in rural parishes within England and to monitor changes in service provision over time. Main Topics: Shops and other retail services; childcare and related facilities; schools; daycare for elderly and handicapped people; health care; places of worship; meeting places and recreational facilities; recreational activities; information services; public transport; public utilities; refuse collection and re-cycling; police and emergency services. This dataset includes individual data files for 1991 and 1994, and an additional file of combined 1991/1994 data for comparison between the earlier and later surveys. No sampling (total universe) Postal survey The data were collected from parish clerks by the Rural Community Councils

ArcGIS shapefile of the 6336 miles of railway lines open for public carriage of passengers and/or freight for England, Wales and Scotland in 1851. These data derive from a time dynamic GIS of the railway lines of England and Wales 1807 to 1998 which is structured so that it can generate a GIS of rail lines for any given year between these dates.These data were created as part of a research program directed by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley, which aims ultimately to reconstruct the evolution of the occupational structure of Britain from the late medieval period down to the early twentieth century. This project included GIS snapshots of the rail lines and stations of England, Wales and Scotland at three dates: 1851, 1861 and 1881. Max Satchell identified the potential of Michael Cobb's railway atlas for the creation of both the ESRC snapshots and a much more ambitious time dynamic historical rail GIS dataset. He made the initial contact with Cobb, and then with Tony Wrigley, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Jordi Martí Henneberg of the Departament de Geografia i Sociologia, Universitat de Lleida, sought and obtained permission from Cobb for a GIS digitisation from the revised 2005 reprint of his Atlas.

This work explores the processing of data from air traffic communication in order to detect and recognize the~call signs it contains. Particularly it involves recognizing these call signs in human made and automated text transcripts of the communication between pilots and air traffic controllers. The thesis compares various ways of solving this and describes their problems. It implements a system for the identification of these call signs using a suitable technology based on large language models. One of the outputs of this work is a service that is able to distinguish the call signs, which enables indexation and sorting of this data in an efficient way. Práca sa zaoberá spracovaním dát z leteckej komunikácie s cieľom rozpoznania volacích znakov. Konkrétne ide o rozpoznanie volacích znakov z ľuďmi vytvorených a automatizovaných textových prepisov komunikácie medzi pilotmi a riadením letovej prevádzky. Porovnávané sú rôzne spôsoby riešenia. Práca popisuje návrh a implementáciu systému identifikácie týchto znakov za pomoci vhodnej technológie založenej na veľkých jazykových modeloch. Jedným z výstupov je služba, ktorá dokáže v poskytnutých dátach označiť volacie znaky, čo umožní efektívnejšiu prácu s týmito údajmi. B

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research British Social Attitudes webpage. Main Topics:Each year, the BSA interview questionnaire contains a number of 'core' questions, which are repeated in most years. In addition, a wide range of background and classificatory questions is included. The remainder of the questionnaire is devoted to a series of questions (modules) on a range of social, economic, political and moral issues - some are asked regularly, others less often. Cross-indexes of those questions asked more than once appear in the reports. The BSA 2007 questionnaires included modules covering: attitudes to health, social welfare, transport, constitution and devolution, education, respect and emotional support. Version A of the self-completion questionnaire included a module of questions about leisure time and sports, which were fielded as part of the ISSP. Multi-stage stratified random sample See documentation for each BSA year for full details.