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Webinar: Investigating language spoken in the UK - what data can I use?

Dates:25 March 2020
Times:15:00 - 16:00
What is it:Webinar
Organiser:Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:Free
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his free webinar, jointly organised by Understanding Society, the UK Data Service Census team and CeLSIUS, is designed for anyone who would like to know more about sources of survey data available for investigating language spoken in the UK.

In the first part of the presentation, Dr Alita Nandi, University of Essex, will talk about language data collected in Understanding Society, a household panel survey of around 40,000 UK households. She will give a brief overview of the study and how to access the data.

This will be followed by Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, UCL, who will talk about a question asked for the first time in the 2011 Censuses - that of main language spoken (and of proficiency in English) - and about long-running questions on ability to speak, read and write Welsh, Scots, Scottish Gaelic and Irish and Ulster-Scots. The talk will cover what data are available and how they can be accessed, how researchers can use them and what they show.

The third speaker, Dr Jemima Stockton, UCL, will focus on questions about language in the census longitudinal studies and how people can use and access these data, and changes over time in speakers of different languages.

The webinar will consist of 45 minutes of presentations and 15 minutes for questions.

The webinar is suitable for both new and experienced researchers. The data discussed in the first two parts of this webinar are available for anyone to use while the census longitudinal studies data are accessed via a safe room and are only available to researchers based in the UK.

More information and booking at https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5537

Price: Free

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