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May 2003 - July 2003

Tables of performance data for ESDS

User Support (A1.1)

Helpdesk (A1.1.1)

All queries were responded to within 1 working day.

Datasets

No. queries

No. unresolved after 5 days

Service

May

Jun

Jul

May

Jun

Jul

Central

154

123

125

0

2

3

International

10

5

8

0

0

1

Government

25

21

9

0

3

1

Longitudinal

10

9

7

0

0

0

Qualidata

15

16

15

4

2

1

Other

9

9

9

2

1

1

Total

223

183

173

6

8

7

User Registration (A1.1.2)

Individual user registrations

May

Jun

Jul

New users

252

255

272

Total active users registered

6,960

7,215

7,487

Documentation, information and training (A1.2)

Documentation (A1.2.1)

Number of new/updated items

May

Jun

Jul

Paper-based

0

1

0

Electronic

1

1

9

Electronic and paper

0

0

0

Training workshops (A1.2.2)

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Number of workshops

2

0

2

1

0

2

3

Total attendees

20+13

0

16+20

5

0

15+30

20+50+50

Promotion marketing and user relationships (A1.3)

Summary of events attended for promotional purposes:

Event etc

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Conferences/professional meetings

0

2

5

11

4

12

6

User meetings

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

Postings/Emails sent

4

3

4

5

8

14

10

Newsletters/Promotional articles

1

3

2

1

2

1

1

Technical and operational support (A1.4)

System support and machine operation (A1.4.1)

Breaks in service per machine

 

May

Jun

Jul

No. Breaks

No. Breaks

No. Breaks

Server

Sch

Unsch

Sch

Unsch

Sch

Unsch

UKDA

5

1

8

1

25

14

MIMAS

0

0

1

0

0

2

Downtime per month

 

May

Jun

Jul

Server

Sch

Unsch

Sch

Unsch

Sch

Unsch

UKDA

19

13

31

2

1,207

687

MIMAS

0

0

2

0

0

562

Sch = Scheduled downtime (minutes) Unsch = Unscheduled downtime (minutes)

Percentage Availability (excludes scheduled downtimes)

Server

May

Jun

Jul

UKDA

99.97

100

98.46

MIMAS

100

100

98.74

Service response times for single-term searches

Month

Sample no.

Ave (secs)

Max (secs)

% over 5 secs

May

988

0.89

30

0.40

Jun

4,078

0.97

30

0.59

Jul

2,539

1.03

30

0.39

Management (A2.1)

Meetings with Stakeholders

Number of meetings

May

14

Jun

10

Jul

10

Access and Preservation (A2.2)

Download service

New and updated Data + Documentation

New

Updated

Core only (both new & update)

May

29

17

5

Jun

6

16

6

Jul

11

2

9

Occasions when data not made available within 30 working days:

May

11

Jun

8

Jul

0

Number of requests

Guest FTP

Portable Media

Other access

Web

Nesstar

May

1,164

48

56

32

21

Jun

1,052

41

37

13

9

Jul

907

52

40

24

16

New Catalogue entries

None reported

Specialist Value Added Data Development and Dissemination Services (A2.3)

Value Added (A2.3.1)

New

Updated

May

 

OECD MEI loaded 13th May 2003

NS Time Series Databank updated, May 28th 2003

Jun

On the 23rd June the successful soft

launch of the Athens authentication and ESDS online registration for access to the NS Databank and OECD Main Economic Indicators took place.

OECD MEI loaded 18th June 2003

NS Time Series Databank updated, June 19th 2003

Jul

The actual launch of AAP and ESDS Registration took place on 30th June - no problems.

OECD MEI loaded 9th July 2003

NS Time Series Databank updated, July 11th 2003.

Beyond 20/20 Help pages updated to reflect ESDS branding. Also Beyond 20/20 FAQs updated.

Occasions when macrodata not made available within 20 working days: There were no delays.

Micro datasets supplied

Feb

Mar

Apr

Eurobarometers

7

3

13

ISSP

1

0

1

World Values Survey

2

1

0

European Values Surveys

0

0

1

Other

0

0

2

Large Scale (2.3.2)

Download

New and updated Data + Documentation

Series Title

New

Updated

May

SHS - Scottish Household Survey

1

1

FRS - Family Resources Survey

0

5

LFS - Labour Force Surveys

24

9

Jun

FRS - Family Resources Survey

0

1

ONS Omnibus

0

1

LFS - Labour Force Surveys

0

12

Jul

GHS - General Household Survey

0

1

Enhancements to documentation

Dataset

Description of Enhancement

Jul

Gov surveys

Employment and Labour Market User Guide

Gov surveys

Guide to analysing LFS with STATA

Data set supply requests broken down by data series

Number of Requests

May

Jun

Jul

British Crime Surveys

16

23

11

British Election Studies

66

59

60

British Social Attitudes Surveys

44

66

38

Expenditure and Food Surveys (New series formed by merger of FES and NFS from 2001)

0

0

0

Family Expenditure Surveys (up to 2000, from 2001 is part of EFS)

257

219

195

Family Resources Surveys

59

32

29

General Household Surveys

208

95

161

Health Surveys for England

59

69

56

Labour Force Surveys

339

340

759

National Diet and Nutrition Surveys

1

5

0

National Food Surveys (up to 2000, from 2001 is part of EFS)

1

1

1

National Travel Surveys

22

5

10

Northern Ireland Life and Times Surveys

4

6

4

Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Surveys

6

23

6

ONS Omnibus Surveys

1

10

6

Road Accident Data

29

0

29

Scottish Crime Surveys

3

2

2

Scottish Health Surveys

7

2

0

Scottish Household Surveys

5

10

13

Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys

3

6

2

Surveys of English Housing

6

5

7

Time Use Surveys

9

10

5

Vital Statistics for England and Wales

0

0

4

Workplace Employee Relations Surveys

11

10

19

Longitudinal (A2.3.3)

Download

New and updated Data + Documentation

New

Updated

May

1

0

Jun

1

0

Jul

0

0

There were no occasions when data were not made available within 30 working days.

Data set supply requests broken down by data series

Data collection

May

June

July

British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)

127

95

93

Birth Cohort Study (BCS70)

73

59

65

National Child Development Study (NCDS) (upper row is SN4396)

15

22

32

20

20

15

Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

0

6

8

Qualidata (A2.3.4)

Download

New and updated Data + Documentation

New

Updated

May

0

0

Jun

2

0

Jul

2

1

There were no occasions when data were not made available within 30 working days:

Data set supply requests broken down by data series

Number of Requests

Dataset

May

Jun

Jul

SN2000

1

0

1

Q33

1

0

0

Q35

1

0

0

Q76

1

0

0

Q127

1

0

0

Q310

0

2

0

SN 4410

1

0

1

Q174

0

0

1

Q129

0

0

1

Q30

0

0

1

Q1001

0

0

1

Q1002

0

0

1

SN 4592

1

0

0

SN 4594

0

0

1

Teaching/sampler datasets produced

Dataset

Description

May

SN4592

IASSIST workshop

SN4410

IASSIST workshop

SN2000

IASSIST workshop

July

SN4594

Essex Summer School

SN4410

Essex Summer School

SN2000

RCBN workshop