Survey Research Data Archive: Current Status and Challenges
1. S urvey R esearch D ata A rchive: Current Status and Challenges Ly-Yun Chang Executive Director, Center for Survey Research, RCHSS Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology Academia Sinica Taiwan
3. High Quality Data Utility SRDA Multi-levels Data Panel Data 1. SRDA Introduction Large-scale Data
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5. Current Status of Data Archive Thematic categories Social change, nutrition and health, education, election and democratization Labor force, family income, earnings and productivity Types of data Cross-sectional, panel, quasi-longitudinal Public use data, restricted data, on-site data Record unit Individual, firm, school, town or village (tsun, li) Access
7. Materials Available for Members R aw data (SPSS,STATA,SAS), codebooks, s tatistical s oftware programs, User’s Guide
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9. 2. Major Activities To append or merge panel data To create quasi-longitudinal data from cross-sectional surveys To provide different kinds of search tool on the SRDA website
13. More Major Activities (Response the User’s Voice) Transpose data structure Calculate weights for population estimation Develop variable naming systems