1. Improving data services by creating a question database
Nanna Floor Clausen
Danish Data Archives
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2. Background Pressure on the students Decrease in response rates
The users want more
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3. Why a question database?
Study descriptions
Html format
Study management
database
Codebooks in PDFformat
Search
catalogue
Study descriptions
database
Searchable Question Database
Controlled vocabulary
for keywords
Search by topic
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5. Present tools Question Database IASSIST 2007 Developing a system
for managing physical
files
Tool for reading SPSS
and create OSIRIS files
Question
Database
Codebooks
Tool for converting
OSIRIS files to SPSS
Scanned questionnaires
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6. What’s in it for me? The end user
Additional methods for identifying surveys
New possibilities for comparative research
Support in the construction of new questionnaires and questions
New possibility for generating time series
Longitudinal analysis of a question
Research on the question formulations
More open access and insight into the surveys
……………....and much more
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7. What’s in it for me? The data provider
Improvement of the data service
Reduces service costs
Expectations:
Increase the visibility of the data archive
Increase the use of the data materials
Improve the acquisition process
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8. A world of information IASSIST 2007 All questions In survey listed
Specification
CodeBook
Survey
Title
Study
Description
StudyID
VarNum
QuestionText
Survey
size
Scanned
questionnaire
Methodology
Answer
categories
Explanation
…much more
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9. With a click Intuitive search interface
Possible options in the interface:
Precision in search criteria
Amount of information in search result
Possibility for adding opted out information
Selection of survey type
Selection of population size in survey
Methodology used in survey
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10. How will it all be achieved?
Extract question text from OSIRIS files
Simple question:
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11. Open question:
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12. Multiple response question:
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14. Question database tables
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15. Relation to methodology
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16. Relation with study tables
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17. Relation with FileManager
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18. A little about the future
Addition of questions from new surveys
Create a database as close to the questionnaire as possible
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19. THE END
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22. Search result Question text StudyID VarNum IASSIST 2007 Metho-dology
Questionnaire
File-Size
Question text
Answer categories
StudyID
VarNum
Survey
title
Code-
book
Study-
description
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23. Topics The objectives in a data archive
The internal development in DDA
Demands from the users /outside world
Purposes of a question database
Advantages for the end users
Advantages for the data archive
The web structure
The design and construction of the database
Updating and further development
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24. Topics Background Why a question database? What’s in it for me?
A world of information with a click
How will this be achieved
A little about the future
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