This package aims to provide National Student Survey data in a tidy, documented format.
At present the package provides top-level data from 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 iterations of survey.
As of 2018, the previously used Joint Academic Coding System ( JACS) classification of subjects will be replaced by the Higher Education Classification of subjects ( HECoS) codes. In 2018 a third system, the Common Aggregation Hierarchy (or CAH) is being used to bridge the gap between JACS and HECoS.
At present I am working on a memory-cheap and future-proof way of joining JACS, CAH and HECoS codes together. Subject level data will follow
The survey changed from 2016-2017 and HEFCE, who owned the data prior to Office for Students, were very concerned that people may compile 2017 and pre-2017 data as there was a significant survey change at that point.
In the future I would like to combine this with older datasets.
Through the gentle guidance of my good colleague Ian Handel I conceded to naming this package as the lowercase nss, and the top level object shares that name. However column headings have capitals because that's easier to read and this is a hill I am prepared to die on.
At present, no plans to push this through CRAN so use GitHub.
devtools::install_github("jillymackay/nss")The National Student Survey data is coordinated by the Office for Students. It is currently (as of 2018) delivered by Ipsos MORI and results made available by Texuna Technologies. https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/student-information-and-data/national-student-survey-nss/contacts-and-privacy/
All the data used here is publicly available.
All this code is CC0