Support #2043
openLegality of sharing Understanding Society data
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Hello,
I am a final year PhD student who is very close to submission. As part of my research, I have reconstructed monthly retrospective data from across the Understanding Society survey into a single database of 100,000+ occupational sequences.
Constructing this database was very time consuming and I believe the complexity of this task prevents many researchers from using the retrospective data available within the Understand Society survey. As part of my thesis submission, I was therefore hoping to share this dataset on a public GitHub repository. The data frame would include participants’ unique ID (pidp) and their monthly occupational activities between the years 1900-2020.
I am aware this may be a breach of the end user licence agreement, and so was hoping to get some clarification on the legality of sharing this data. Specifically:
1) Is it a breach of the End User License agreement for me to share this data on a public repository?
2) If so, is there any way for me to share this data that would not be a breach of the End User License agreement or broader data protection laws?
Many thanks in advance for your time,
Michael
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