Community Services Data Set (CSDS)

Community Services Data Set (CSDS)#

Last modified: 29 Jul 2025

Children, young people and adults who are in contact with NHS funded organisations that provide community services in England.

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). (2024). NHS England: Community Services Data Set (CSDS). UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-03
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Series NHS England
Owner NHS England
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 Community
Latest Extract Date 2024-04-26
Specific Restrictions to Data Use None
Build a Data Request https://explore.ukllc.ac.uk/

2. Metrics#

Click on the plus sign to see the number of participants represented in each dataset.

Table 2: Participants from each LPS represented in the CSDS dataset in the UK LLC TRE. Note: Individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to <10 and excluded from total participant counts for datasets.

3. Version History#

Version 2 3
Version Date 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
Number of Variables 138 153
Number of Observations 875112 1174751
DOI 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-02 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-03
Change Log 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-02/activities 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00364-03/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.