Student Research Using the ONS LS and Census Microdata (aka SARs/Samples of Anonymised Records)

Programme:

10.00 Refreshments and registration - Room 422, Roberts Building

10.30 Welcome - Dr Nicola Shelton, CeLSIUS Director - Room 422, Roberts Building

10.40 Introduction to the LS and census microdata - Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, CeLSIUS Senior Advisor - Room 422, Roberts Building

11.00 Using the LS to investigate mortality among immigrants and their descendants in England and Wales - Dr Matthew Wallace, PhD completed at Liverpool University, now at INED (the French Institute for Demographic Studies), Paris - Room 422, Roberts Building

11.20 Refreshments - Room 422, Roberts Building

11.50 Using census microdata to explore ethnic inequalities in health - Dr Fran Darlington-Pollock, PhD completed at Leeds University, now at Liverpool University - Room 422, Roberts Building

12.10 Marital age gaps and educational homogamy: evidence from a compulsory schooling reform in the UK - Dr Tanya Wilson, PhD completed at Royal Holloway, University of London, now at Stirling University - Room 422, Roberts Building

12.30 The impact of job polarisation on occupational mobility - Sanne Velthuis, PhD in progress at Coventry University - Room 422, Roberts Building

12.50 Mind the gap: Explaining the London Effect through Housing Policy - Jack Blundell, DPhil in progress at Oxford University - Room 422, Roberts Building

1.10 Lunch (provided) - Room 422, Roberts Building

2.00 Longitudinal Research Infrastructure in the United States - Professor Trent Alexander, formerly Assistant Chief of Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications, U.S. Census Bureau, now at ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), University of Michigan AND Dr Katherine Genadek, Economist at the Centre for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau and Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado - Room 422, Roberts Building

3.00 Practical session: concurrent training in the use of the LS and census microdata, including:

An introduction to analysing Longitudinal Study data using the SYLLS Synthetic Spine Dataset and R - Dr Adam Dennett, CeLSIUS Senior Advisor - Room B29, Foster Court

How to use the census microdata with Nesstar and how to apply to use the LS - Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, CeLSIUS Senior Advisor - Room B29, Foster Court

4.30 – 4.40 Event closure - Dr Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS - Room B29, Foster Court