[DDI-users] CATI - type surveys and the DDI

[Wendy Thomas]

I think this could be difficult using the current DDI as all the question
material is imbeded in the variables. One of the pieces of Version 3.0 is
a separate module that describes a questionnaire. This is something thats
been on the "to do" list for Version 2.0 for some time.

There was work done on creating a questionnaire development tool for the
ISP called the ISP-datawizard. This was a project worked on by ZA and IZ
in Germany. They were primarily dealing with multilanguage questionnaires
but the output was supposed to feed the DDI and question information
currently held in <var>. Meinhard or Oliver may be able to provide
additional information. I think Tom Piazza has looked at some of the
CATI ramifications.

wendy



On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Hoyle, Larry wrote:

> Is anybody using this as input to CATI software as a way to design
> surveys?
> This would be a great way to ensure that the metadata match what was
> actually done.
>
>
>
> Larry Hoyle
> Associate Scientist
> University of Kansas, Policy Research Institute
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ddi-users-bounces at icpsr.umich.edu] On Behalf Of Wendy Thomas
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> Subject: Re: [DDI-users] CATI - type surveys and the DDI
>
> Currently this is handled by the <forward> element in <var><qstn>. Note
> that this is repeatable so that you can indicate the qstn ID in the
> attribute qstn and provide the logic in the PCDATA for example:
>
> <forward qstn="Q2">If response eq 1</forward>
> <forward qstn="Q4">If response gt 1</forward>
>
> Q2 and Q4 can have similar <backward> information indicating the
> possible
> previous questions.
>
> wendy
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, A. Michelle Edwards wrote:
>
> > Good morning all and Happy New Year...
> >
> > This may be a long way - so be forewarned :)  OK - the DDI codebook
> > documents the entire survey - all questions, answers, etc...  In a
> situation
> > such as a CATI survey (as I understand it) - the respondent is asked
> > question 1 - based on his/her answer is then passed onto question 4 -
> and
> > then maybe onto question 12...  and so on.  Is there anyway we can
> capture
> > this "gateway" in the DDI codebook?
> >
> > Hmmm..  that was shorter than I expected and I hope this makes sense
> to
> > everyone....
> >
> > Michelle
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Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455