**About the presentation** This seminar was a part of seminar series [‘How to Share…’][1] developed by the University of Sheffield Library. In this session, [Aneta Piekut][2] from the Sheffield Methods Institute explored both the positive and negative experiences she has had with sharing survey data, as well as imparting helpful, actionable guidance, focusing on the main philosophy that sharing data is easier if preparation is done across the project. Aneta discussed FAIR data sharing principles using her experience of survey data deposition for [ORDA][3] - the University of Sheffield data repository. The survey data was collected for [“Health, social, economic & cultural impacts of Covid-19 on migrant essential workers in the UK”][4] UKRI/ESRC-funded project, 2020-2023. This data has been made openly available to allow other researchers to benefit from the work Aneta and team did in collecting and processing the data. **Deposited data:** Piekut, Aneta; Gawlewicz, Anna; Narkowicz, Kasia; Wright, Sharon; Trevena, Paulina; Le, Thi Phuong Linh (2023). Polish Migrant Essential Workers in the UK during COVID-19: Survey Data, 2021. The University of Sheffield. Dataset, doi: [https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.23739624][5]. [1]: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/how-share-seminar-series [2]: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi [3]: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/.sheffield.ac.uk/smi [4]: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/V015877/1 [5]: https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.23739624