[DDI-users] Section 3 - File Description Interpretation

[Michelle Edwards]

Good morning all!

I was hoping someone could clarify the interpretation of Section 3 of the DDI DTD.  Should this section be describing the original datafile that we receive as data providers?  OR the datafile that we create?  Let me explain a bit more...

If I go to ICPSR and download a study - I will receive a datafile in a CSV format for example.  To make it accessible to my users at my institution I create a SAS dataset for our retrieval system.  When I create my DDI codebook - should I be referring to the CSV file or the SAS dataset file for Section 3?

Thanks and have a great day!
MIchelle
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A. Michelle Edwards, Ph.D. 
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Email: edwardsm at uoguelph.ca 
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