MISSY - Metadata for Official Statistics - a new service for EU microdata - European Data Access Forum Luxembourg, March 2015 Jeanette Bohr GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim

Microdata Information System MISSY supports DwB objective “Provide structured metadata for Eurostat data” provides all necessary tools and information to facilitate a professional and efficient use of official microdata for the social science new service is based on the MISSY system for the documentation of the German Microcensus 2

3 Tools and workflows for a structured metadata preparation Central, systematic and user-friendly access to metadata Re-use of metadata in other systems Open Source: New MISSY Services MISSY Web MISSY Import MISSY Editor MISSY Export

Cooperation DwB & MISSY 4 Metadata schema definition (variable & study level) and controlled vocabularies Metadata preparation:  EU-SILC, EU-LFS & AES (by GESIS)  SES and CIS (by DwB partners WP5) Metadata export from MISSY into DwB Portal

MISSY – Use Cases During data analyses Use of tools, i.e. Syntax to produce system files in SPSS/Stata Checking import results by comparing frequency count Answering specific questions i.e. regarding methodology or comparability 5 Data exploration Identify matching data sources by using thematic searches Check data availability for certain countries and points in time Validate whether number of cases is sufficient to answer research question  Support for cross-cultural and inter-temporal analysis

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9 Data entry / Import Data representation / Export Database WebExport Editor MISSY Infrastructure Import Application

10 Database WebExport Editor MISSY – products: accessibility Import-application unrestricted web access secure GESIS Mannheim

11 Database WebExport Editor MISSY – products: formats Import-application DDI 3.2 DDI-RDF

12 Setups (Variable and Value Labels) Microdata (Variables and Values, Frequencies, Descriptive Statistics) Eurostat Documentation: User Guides, Description of target variables, Definitions & Explanatory Notes, Quality Reports, Questionnaires, etc. Sources of information

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