Annex A
LIST OF TOPICS FOR JOINT WORKING
ESRC GROWING OLDER
RESEARCH PROGRAMME
ON EXTENDING
QUALITY LIFE
DWP Minister, Malcolm Wicks, gave a keynote
speech at ESRC's Growing Older Programme Closing Conference last
December and results from the programme have actively fed into
Departmental thinking.
CROSS COUNCIL
PROGRAMME ON
AGEING—THE
NEW DYNAMICS
OF AGEING
DWP will actively engage with this programme,
building on the Growing Older Programme mentioned above, and we
are currently consulting with the Programme Director on formalising
our involvement.
ESRC—NATIONAL
CENTRE FOR
RESEARCH METHODS
DWP, together with the Government Chief Social
Researcher, is engaging with this new centre particularly in respect
of its agenda to cooperate with government on research methods
and training.
NATIONAL DATASET
STRATEGY
This initiative is timely given the Department's
advances in the use of administrative data. We shall be closely
involved with the data strategy to help further shape the use
of large scale surveys for analytical purposes.
LONGITUDINAL DATA
AND COHORT
STUDIES
The Department has long been an active contributor
to the various data collection initiatives established by or with
the engagement of ESRC—BHPS, Millennium Cohort and in the
past NCDS etc. Longitudinal data forms a very important part of
DWP's analytical and policy making capability across the range
of life cycle issues and we are continuing to discuss potential
collaboration, including a Wealth and Assets survey.
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