Community Services Data Set (CSDS)#
Last modified: 21 Oct 2026
1. Summary#
The CSDS contains data about children and adults including personal and demographic, social and personal circumstances, breastfeeding and nutrition, care event and screening activity, diagnoses, including long-term conditions and disabilities, scored assessments and weight management services. These activities could take place in settings such as health centres, Sure Start centres, day care facilities, schools or community centres, mobile facilities, or a patient’s own home. The dataset replaced the Children and Young People’s Health Services Data Set (CYPHS) which was restricted to those aged 18 years and under.
| Dataset Descriptor | Dataset-specific Information |
|---|---|
| Name of Dataset in TRE | NHSE_CSDS |
| Citation (APA) | Data Services, NHS England (NHSE). (2025). NHS England: Community Services Data Set (CSDS). UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-04 |
| Download Citation | Citeproc JSON BibTeX RIS |
| Series | NHS England |
| Owner | NHS England |
| Copyright | Copyright © (2026), NHS England. Data re-used with the permission of NHS England. All rights reserved. |
| Temporal Coverage in the TRE | 04/2015 - ongoing |
| Geographical Coverage | England |
| Participant Count | N/A - Dataset comprises of multiple auxiliary tables |
| Number of Variables | N/A - Dataset comprises of multiple auxiliary tables |
| Number of Observations | N/A - Dataset comprises of multiple auxiliary tables |
| Key Link | https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/community-services-data-set |
| Keywords | None |
| Latest Extract Date | 2024-04-26 |
| Specific Restrictions to Data Use | None |
| Build a Data Request | https://explore.ukllc.ac.uk/ |
2. Metrics#
| Cohort | Participant Count |
|---|---|
| AIRWAVE | 6097 |
| ALSPAC | 2208 |
| BCS70 | 975 |
| BIB | 509 |
| ELSA | 4743 |
| EPICN | 10145 |
| EXCEED | 353 |
| GLAD | 15280 |
| MCS | 2375 |
| NCDS58 | 1415 |
| NEXTSTEP | 652 |
| NIHRBIO_COPING | 46 |
| NSHD46 | 531 |
| TEDS | 2307 |
| TRACKC19 | 2420 |
| TWINSUK | 45 |
| UKHLS | 1290 |
| UKREACH | 6875 |
3. Version History#
| Version | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version Date | 13 Apr 2023 | 26 Apr 2024 | 09 Sep 2025 |
| Number of Variables | 138 | 153 | 154 |
| Number of Observations | 875112 | 1174751 | 1011280 |
| DOI | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-02 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-03 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-04 |
| Change Log | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-02/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-03/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-04/activities |
4. Documentation#
We are currently building a documentation storage system which will host useful documents related to datasets and data owners. We will surface these documents on Guidebook.
5. Useful Syntax#
Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to the UK LLC GitHub repository where you can find the full scripts.