IMPROVING ACCESS TO AND USE OF ORGANISATION-LEVEL DATA ON THE THIRD SECTOR AND CIVIL SOCIETY

改善第三部门和民间社会组织层面数据的获取和使用

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X000524/1
负责人：
John Mohan
金额：
$ 86.76万
依托单位：
University of Birmingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX000524%2F1
关键词：
IMPROVING ACCESS USE ORGANISATION LEVEL

项目摘要

The voluntary sector is widely acknowledged as containing very large numbers of organisations that make an enormous contribution to well-being and social cohesion in the UK. It encompasses charities, social enterprises, mutuals, cooperatives, and many less formal voluntary and community organisations. We know a great deal from survey data about patterns of individual giving to charities, and about patterns of volunteering. But there is a substantial gap in the availability of high-quality data about voluntary organisations. And it is argued that better-quality information and evidence would lead to the contribution of those organisations being properly recognised, leading in turn to higher levels of public and voluntary support for them. This project seeks to respond to this need by creating the first national database on the population of organisations forming the third sector through bringing together information about charities with information about different kinds of noncharitable civil society organisations (including Community Interest Companies, Co-operatives and Mutuals, and non-profit Companies Limited by Guarantee).Then we will link this national database of third sector organisations with various other datasets. They include the Business Structure Database (BSD), a central government dataset on organisations, enabling us to identify third sector organisations on the BSD and to obtain data on the income, staffing and geography of third sector organisations where this has been previously lacking. We will also link up with open data on government and NHS spending, to give a detailed picture of which third sector organisations are involved in partnering with government in the delivery of public services, and information on the distribution of grants to voluntary organisations across the country. The project will open up new avenues for research on, for example, the survival and growth of third sector organisations; the contribution of the third sector to public service delivery; the level of voluntary sector activity in different parts of the country. In this way, we will make the contribution of the sector much more visible to stakeholders. In strategic terms our work will provide an important demonstration of the uses of administrative data for research on organisations - a field in which most work to date has focussed on administrative data on individuals. It will result in a step-change in the quality of the information base about the third sector, which will provide a foundational and sustainable resource for decision making and policy development. This will be of value to funders (such as charitable foundations), central and local government, local and regional councils for voluntary service, which sustain these organisations locally, and commissioners of public services such as the NHS, which rely substantially on the voluntary sector to deliver services.

志愿部门被广泛认为是包含大量组织，这些组织为英国的幸福感和社会凝聚力做出了巨大贡献。它涵盖了慈善机构，社会企业，共同，合作社以及许多正式的自愿和社区组织。从调查数据中，我们了解有关慈善机构的个人捐赠模式以及志愿服务模式的广泛了解。但是，有关志愿组织的高质量数据的可用性存在很大的差距。有人认为，更好的信息和证据将导致这些组织得到适当认可的贡献，从而导致更高水平的公共和自愿支持。该项目试图通过创建第一个国家数据库来应对建立第三部门的第一个国家数据库，通过将有关慈善机构的信息汇总到有关不同类型的非货币民间社会组织的信息（包括社区利益公司，合作社和共同群体），以及受担保限制的非营利公司。其中包括业务结构数据库（BSD），这是一家有关组织的中央政府数据集，使我们能够在BSD上识别第三部门组织，并获取有关以前缺乏此前缺乏的第三部门组织的收入，人员配备和地理的数据。我们还将与有关政府和NHS支出的开放数据联系起来，以详细了解哪些第三部门组织与政府合作提供公共服务，以及有关向全国各地志愿组织分配赠款的信息。该项目将开辟新的研究途径，例如，例如第三部门组织的生存和成长；第三部门对公共服务交付的贡献；该国不同地区的志愿部门活动水平。通过这种方式，我们将使利益相关者更加明显地贡献该行业的贡献。用战略术语，我们的工作将为组织研究的使用提供重要的证明，该领域迄今为止，大多数工作都集中在对个人的行政数据上。这将导致有关第三部门的信息基础质量的逐步变化，这将为决策和政策制定提供基础和可持续的资源。这对资助者（例如慈善基金会），中央和地方政府，地方和区域志愿服务委员会（例如在本地维持这些组织以及NHS等公共服务的专员）将具有价值提供服务。