[DDI-users] Section 3 - File Description Interpretation

[Mercurio, Rocco]

Hi All,

 

I'm a data manager at the University of Pittsburgh and plan to archive a
bunch of datasets this fall, after our research study ends.  Can someone
give me a quick heads-up on how to get started using DDI?  

 

Thanks, 

Rocco

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Edwards [mailto:edwardsm at uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:20 AM
To: ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu
Subject: [DDI-users] Section 3 - File Description Interpretation

 

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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