Research project

Paul Smith ESRC Evidence gathering from the School of Economic Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton for the SPF ‘UK Population Laboratory’/Longitudinal Studies scoping project

Project overview

The proposed research takes the evidence from published and unpublished work on the design, implementation and analysis of longitudinal studies, and uses it to develop strategies which can be considered for longitudinal data investments in the UK. This includes the maintenance and development of existing sources as well as the potential for development of new ones. It covers modern approaches to supplementing survey data collection with administrative data, and a variety of different methods which provide information for the general population and for specific groups of interest. It balances the risk and complexity of advanced approaches against the need for simplicity to make these data sources available to researchers, and against efficiency. Efficiency is important to make the best use of scarce resources to manage and develop the UK's longitudinal data infrastructure.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Paul Smith

Personal Chair
Research interests
  • Sampling and estimation methods in official statistics
  • Dual system (capture-recapture) estimation in official statistics
  • Price indices
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Other researchers

Professor Gabriele Durrant PhD

Prof of Social Stats & Survey Method
Research interests
  • survey data collection
  • survey methodology
  • statistical modelling
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Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics
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Professor Ann Berrington

Professor-Demography&Social Statistics
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Professor Nikos Tzavidis PhD

Professor of Statistical Methodology
Research interests
  • Small Area Estimation and official statistics
  • Outlier robust inference; Quantile and M-quantile models
  • Geospatial data; Poverty mapping; Statistical inference under data aggregation and displaceme…
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Professor Li-Chun Zhang

Professor in Social Statistics
Research interests
  • Graph sampling
  • Analysis of integrated data
  • Statistical uses of administrative sources
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Professor Peter van der Heijden

Professor in Social Statistics
Research interests
  • Categorical data analysis
  • Population size estimation, capture-recapture
  • Randomized response
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Dr Angela Luna Hernandez

Lecturer B
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs