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A guide how to prepare data to be deposited at SWISSUbase.

Kristi Winters reviews an example of variable harmonization documentation.

Research data management explained in detail by UKDA.

This guide focuses on the data preparation phase, which starts after data collection and ends before their analysis. This first assessment of the “raw” survey data is crucial since data preparation can affect the quality of the data in a positive or negative way. After an overview of the differen...

Adequate understanding of the data files and accompanying materials is a necessary condition for re-use of your data. Therefore a thorough description of your research is needed. For this purpose ADP prepared this Study description form, which is based on the substantive definitions of internatio...

APIS' explanation to depositors on how data should be prepared and documented.

R package to document a dataset writing a nice codebook in PDF format

The GESIS software Dataset Documentation Manager (DSDM) can be used to describe datasets, document variables and questions, and create CodebookExplorer databases: - Read in SPSS datasets - Documentation of variables - Documentation of question texts, answer texts, codes - Multi-linguality and...