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

[Markus Quandt]

Hello,

a quick note on the ISSP DataWizard Wendy mentioned. The project is
still alive - after a longer break, we are in a closed beta test now -
but the DataWizard is not specifically designed to be a questionnaire
development tool. Rather, it is a data harmonization tool, intended
for post-processing data produced by surveys in e.g. different
languages.

You can actually define variable structures from scratch with the tool
and thus produce a basic DDI file, but there is for example nothing
specific that would let you describe filter relationships between
variables.

Regards,

Markus Quandt (who's currently responsible for the DataWizard at ZA,
and has been reading the DDI-users list silently until now...)

On Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at , you wrote:

> 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
>> Blake Hall
>> 1541 Lilac Lane
>> Lawrence, KS  66044-3177
>>
>> http://www.ku.edu/pri

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