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1Booth’s original work was published in 17 volumes over the turn of the nineteenth century. It has been subsequently summarized, reproduced and interpreted on many occasions. See O’Day and Englander (1993).
2Within the UK, see www.adls.ac.uk for general information about new access opportunities.
3At the time of writing, the UK Administrative Data Taskforce had reported (www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/ADT-Improving-Access-for-Research-and-Policy_tcm8-24462.pdf). If its recommendations are taken up by the UK government, they are likely to lead to a step change in research access to administrative data.
4By orthodox social science data, we mean data collected with the specific intent of doing social science. Though, of course, even these data and methods are continually being developed and renewed; we have travelled some distance from the purposive cross-sectional surveys of the early twentieth century in the UK to the online surveys, cohort studies and experimental controlled trials increasingly used today.
5The definition in the SRSA is very similar to the one contained in the Data Protection Act (1998).
6See http://ukanon.net
