[DDI-users] Section 3 - File Description Interpretation

[Mary Vardigan]

Rocco,

We have a set of Web pages on getting started with the DDI at:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/users/intro-use.html

Please get back in touch if you have any questions, and thanks for your 
interest in the project.

Mary

At 08:58 AM 4/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi All,
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>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?
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>Thanks,
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>Rocco
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>-----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
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>Good morning all!
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>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...
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>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?
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>Thanks and have a great day!
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>MIchelle
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Mary Vardigan
Director, Collection Delivery
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
University of Michigan
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
Phone: 734-615-7908
Fax: 734-647-8200
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