{"id":25,"date":"2025-12-07T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:30:04","slug":"data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/data\/","title":{"rendered":"Obtaining Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p>This page contains details of how the data for the report was extracted from the official REF public domain data and then processed to create the summary spreadsheets.\u00a0 It is also included as an appendix of the main report.<\/p>\n<h1>Downloading data from the REF 2021 database<\/h1>\n<p>The spreadsheet of institution-by-institution results is accessed from the REF results and submissions database starting at the main page for the UoA results (Fig A1).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc-1536x1144.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc-403x300.jpg 403w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A1-download-results-50pc.jpg 1893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig A1. UoA11 main page \u2013 \u2018Download current view\u2019 creates spreadsheet of results<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/results2021.ref.ac.uk\/profiles\/units-of-assessment\/11\">https:\/\/results2021.ref.ac.uk\/profiles\/units-of-assessment\/11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This produces a spreadsheet with four rows for each institution listing a profile of 4*,3*, 2*, 1* and unclassified results for Overall, Outputs, Impact and Environments respectively (Fig. A2).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-28 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-1024x504.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-1024x504.png 1024w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-1536x756.png 1536w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-2048x1008.png 2048w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A2-raw-results-ssheet-500x246.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig A2. Quality Profiles Spreadsheet with separate rows for Overall, Outputs, Impact, and Environment<\/p>\n<p>The income spreadsheets are accessed from the Environment submssions database (Fig. A3).\u00a0 One must first select the desired unit of assessment (UoA11 in the case of this report) and then navigate to the Downloads area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen-404x300.jpg 404w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A3-environment-database-screen.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig A3. UoA11 main page \u2013 \u2018Download current view\u2019 creates spreadsheet of results<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/results2021.ref.ac.uk\/environment\">https:\/\/results2021.ref.ac.uk\/environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This then contains download links for the income and income-in-kind CSV files (Fig A4).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen-424x300.jpg 424w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A4-environment-download-screen.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig A4. Downloads tab including income and income-in-kind CSV files<\/p>\n<p>The income spreadsheet (Fig. A5) covers 14 different types of income and a overall income total each on a separate row with five columns each containing yearly averages and overall totals covering different time periods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-768x300.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-1536x600.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-2048x801.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A5-income-spreadsheet-dowloaded-500x195.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig A5. Income Spreadsheet with separate rows for fourteen categories and overall total<\/p>\n<h1>Local Processing<\/h1>\n<p>The spreadsheets were processed by a small PHP script to create a single JSON file with all the information gathered together for each institution [<a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/data\/REF2021\/ref2021-uoa11.json\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JSON DATA<\/a>].\u00a0 This was then run through a second script to extract a summary CSV with one row per institution (Fig. A6), which was then used to calculate the various metrics and tables [<a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/data\/REF2021\/summary-REF-FfM-UoA11-20250408.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EXCEL DATA<\/a>]\u00a0 All of the different outcomes profiles are included as separate columns, but only three of the income measures were included as there would have been 75 income totals plus a further eight research in kind columns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32\" src=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-1024x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-1024x266.png 1024w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-768x199.png 768w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-1536x399.png 1536w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-2048x532.png 2048w, https:\/\/alandix.com\/ref2021\/files\/2025\/12\/A6-combined-spreadsheet-detail-500x130.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig A6. Combined Spreadsheet with separate columns for each type of profile<br \/>\nand small selection of income measures<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[JSON DATA]\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/data\/REF2021\/ref2021-uoa11.json\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/alandix.com\/data\/REF2021\/ref2021-uoa11.json<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[EXCEL DATA]\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/data\/REF2021\/summary-REF-FfM-UoA11-20250408.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/alandix.com\/data\/REF2021\/summary-REF-FfM-UoA11-20250408.xlsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page contains details of how the data for the report was extracted from the official REF public domain data and then processed to create the summary spreadsheets.\u00a0 It is also included as an appendix of the main report. 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