Outputs (20)

Can we identify students in ASHE? (2022)
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Phan, V., Ritchie, F., Whittard, D., Stokes, L., Forth, J., & Bryson, A. Can we identify students in ASHE?

ASHE is a key dataset in the UK, the only one which allows long-term analysis of flows in labour market status and earnings, and hence vitally important in the understanding of low pay and wage progression. Separating out students from non-student wo... Read More about Can we identify students in ASHE?.

The incidence of low pay is falling in Britain, but why – and can we trust the figures? (2022)
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Whittard, D., Phan, V., Stokes, L., Forth, J., Bryson, A., Singleton, C., & Ritchie, F. The incidence of low pay is falling in Britain, but why – and can we trust the figures?

Recent research indicates that the percentage of employees in Britain who are low paid – earning below two-thirds median hourly earnings – has been falling in the last 6-7 years. It points to the increased ‘bite’ of the adult National Minimum Wage (N... Read More about The incidence of low pay is falling in Britain, but why – and can we trust the figures?.

Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide (2022)
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Whittard, D., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L., Forth, J., Phan, V., Bryson, A., & Singleton, C. Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide

The Wage and Employment Dynamics (WED) project was funded by Administrative Data Research 2019-2022 to review, quality assure and enhance ASHE data. The project was also provided with ASHE data linked to the 2011 Census for England and Wales. This do... Read More about Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide.

Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE (2022)
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Stokes, L., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Singleton, C., Phan, V., Bryson, A., …McKenzie, A. Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. Weights are provided with the core dataset, which adjust the profile of the annual achieved sample suc... Read More about Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE.

Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution (2022)
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Phan, V., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L., & Whittard, D. (2022). Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution

Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, de... Read More about Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution.

ASHE – 2011 Census Data Linkage: User Guide Drop 1 of the ASHE – 2011 Census Dataset (2022)
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Forth, J., Phan, V., Ritchie, F., Whittard, D., Stokes, L., Bryson, A., & Singleton, C. ASHE – 2011 Census Data Linkage: User Guide Drop 1 of the ASHE – 2011 Census Dataset

Longitudinal attrition in ASHE (2022)
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Forth, J., Phan, V., Stokes, L., Bryson, A., Ritchie, F., Whittard, D., & Singleton, C. Longitudinal attrition in ASHE

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. The survey operates on an annual 1% sample of employee jobs. However, the method of sampling - based on the final two digits of an employee’s Natio... Read More about Longitudinal attrition in ASHE.

Training analysts in the management of confidential data (2022)
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Green, E., & Ritchie, F. Training analysts in the management of confidential data

With researchers increasingly gaining access to confidentiality data through restricted environments, interest has grown in the training of those researchers to protect confidentiality and to use the secure facility effectively. Researcher training,... Read More about Training analysts in the management of confidential data.

Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance (2022)
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Ritchie, F., & Whittard, D. Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance

The ‘five safes’ is a popular data governance framework. It is used to design and critique data management strategies across the world, and has also been used as a performance framework to measure the effectiveness of data access operations. We repor... Read More about Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance.

Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2022)
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Whittard, D., Ritchie, F., Phan, V., Forth, J., Bryson, A., Stokes, L., …McKenzie, A. Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is an important source of longitudinal linked employer-employee payroll earnings data for Britain. It provides accurate information on employees’ hours and earnings and information on the location of em... Read More about Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management (2020)
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Ritchie, F., & Green, E. Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management

The Five Safes framework is increasingly widely used for data governance. Since its conception in 2003, it has influenced data management in many ways, particularly in the public sector. As it has become established, both the advantages and limitatio... Read More about Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management.

Not just arms and legs: The impact of student working on local labour markets (2019)
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Whittard, D., Drew, H., & Ritchie, F. Not just arms and legs: The impact of student working on local labour markets

Five Safes: Designing data access for research
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Desai, T., Ritchie, F., & Welpton, R. (2016). Five Safes: Designing data access for research

What is the best way of managing access to sensitive data? This is not a straightforward question, as it involves the interaction of legal, technical, statistical and, above all, human components to produce a solution. This paper introduces a modelli... Read More about Five Safes: Designing data access for research.

User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata
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Hafner, H., Lenz, R., & Ritchie, F. (2015). User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata. Bristol

When producing anonymised microdata for research, national statistics institutes (NSIs) identify a number of 'risk scenarios' of how intruders might seek to attack a confidential dataset. This paper argues that the strategy used to identify confident... Read More about User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata.

Measuring non-compliance with minimum wages
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Ritchie, F., Veliziotis, M., Drew, H., & Whittard, D. (2016). Measuring non-compliance with minimum wages. Bristol, UK

Many countries have a statutory minimum wage for employees. There is a strong policy interest in knowing the degree of compliance with the law. Quantitative analysis is ideally suited to this, and many countries have rich datasets for employment rese... Read More about Measuring non-compliance with minimum wages.

Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to administrative data for research?
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Ritchie, F. (2016). Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to administrative data for research?. Bristol, UK

The re-use of administrative data for social research holds great potential. From a privacy perspective, administrative data present some additional challenges, including lack of consent, existence of matching databases, and the association with data... Read More about Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to administrative data for research?.

How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS
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Drew, H., Ritchie, F., & King, A. (2014). How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS. Bristol

A resource-based view of organizations suggests that internal knowledge is amongst the most important sources of competitive advantage. Regardless of whether these ideas are exaggerated, it is not necessary to buy into them all to accept the signific... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS.

Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression
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Ritchie, F. (2014). Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression. Bristol

The recent growth in research access to confidential government microdata has prompted the development of more general 'output-based statistical disclosure control' (OSDC) methods which go beyond tabular protection. Central to OSDC is the concept of... Read More about Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression.

Addressing the human factor in data access: Incentive compatibility, legitimacy and cost-effectiveness in public data resources
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Ritchie, F., & Welpton, R. (2014). Addressing the human factor in data access: Incentive compatibility, legitimacy and cost-effectiveness in public data resources. Bristol

Traditional models of incentivising people suggest that positive incentives are more effective than negative ones. We argue that in data access the opposite can be true, as the assumptions made at the design stage can fundamentally change the user en... Read More about Addressing the human factor in data access: Incentive compatibility, legitimacy and cost-effectiveness in public data resources.

Resistance to change in government: Risk, inertia and incentives
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Ritchie, F. (2014). Resistance to change in government: Risk, inertia and incentives. Bristol

There is a popular impression that governments are resistant to change and innovation, and that this is due to a combination of overly bureaucratic processes and a culture of risk aversion. It is debatable that this is well-founded, theoretically or... Read More about Resistance to change in government: Risk, inertia and incentives.