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This guide is for survey commissioners, survey managers and contractors who are involved in producing and archiving social survey data. It is aimed primarily at UK government-sponsored operations although it is relevant to other organisations undertaking large-scale survey data collection.

When depositing data at SND, a written agreement is always established between SND and the research principal. This webpage contains deposit agreement in paper and digital form.

How to prepare data, check and make data available for depositing at ISSDA.

FSD deposition agreement

Description of how to deposit data at CSDA and what benefits it has for data producers and research community

Information regarding the deposit procedure at ADP. Two phases compose the deposit procedure to the ADP that is the phase of evaluation and the phase of ingest of a study.

Detailed information regarding digital management at ADP: acquisition and selection, ingest, archival storage, access, and workflow.

SWISSUbase is usedat FORS to acquire and disseminate data. It includes a reserach projects and data catalogue for data users. Data depositors can deposit their data using FORSbase. Contacts and contracts with data users and data depositors are also treated within SWISSUbase. SWISSUbase has repla...

Penna is a data collection tool maintained by FSD that is specifically designed for collecting textual data. Penna's user interface makes it easy for people to participate in a study and facilitates the archiving of the data.