[EB] "Extra" variables in Euro-Barometer 44.0 (ICPSR 6721)

[Peter Granda]

James:

   Have a look at the document statements at the end of the file of SPSS
Data Definition Statements while you will find nation-specific variable
labels.  The 'extra' responses pertain to just a few countries.

Peter Granda
ICPSR

At 01:32 PM 12/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>A client turned up something odd in Euro-Barometer 44.0 (ICPSR 6721).
>
>Question 8a in the survey asks for reasons why the respondent favors a 
>common currency (or something like that--I don't have the codebook 
>handy). This is a multi-response question--interviewers apparently were 
>instructed to mark all of the responses given by the respondent. For 
>question 8a, there are 26 responses listed in the codebook. As usual for 
>this this type of question, a variable is created for each response, 
>coded 1 if the response was mentioned, 0 if it was not.
>
>Trouble is, the codebook lists 26 responses, but the spss cards indicate 
>there are 29 variables associated with Q8a. The variable labels for these 
>are useless, as they are ALL THE SAME for this group of variables.
>
>Question 8b has the same problem, with 23 responses listed in the 
>codebook and 30 variables in the file.
>
>Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? I suppose we could *assume* 
>that the first 26 variables for 8a correspond to the 26 responses listed 
>in the codebook...but that seem a bit imprecise. <grin>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>James
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>James Cassell                                cassell at irss.unc.edu
    
>Institute for Research in Social Science
http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ 
>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Phone: 919/962-0782
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>