What is the ESDS International?
The International Data Service (ESDS International) is part of the wider Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS); a national data service that came into operation in January 2003. It is a jointly funded initiative sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The service provides access to, and support for, a range of international datasets – both macro and micro sources. It promotes and facilitates increased and more effective use of international datasets in research, learning and teaching across a range of disciplines. ESDS International is being run jointly by Mimas at Manchester and the UK Data Archive (UKDA) at Essex and concentrates on: • providing web-based access to regularly updated macro-level time series produced by organisations such as the OECD, the IMF, the World Bank, the UN, the International Labour Organisation and Eurostat.
