ADP - SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES

 

In the Catalogue of the ADP on the web page, each study is divided into 4 sections. Example:

 

• Study Description: basic description of the study (authors, keywords, topic fields) and methodological information (collection date, geographic coverage, universe, sampling procedure etc.).
• Data Description: information on the data file and frequencies of distribution of individual variables in the data file, together with question texts and answers.
• Accompanying materials (for example questionnaire and various publications).
• Nesstar Browser (link to the study on the Nesstar browser where there is a possibility to download the full study description and/or data file – not available for all studies in the Catalogue of the ADP).

 

Information in the right sidebar additionally inform about:

1. Terms of Access: determined by our policy of access (see tab General Terms of Use in the Section 1. Read the Terms of Use). Most of the studies is available under the CC-BY licence.


 

2. Access to Data on Nesstar browser: a link to the study description on the Nesstar browser is given. Quantitative studies have the option of online analyses or data file download.


 

3. Status of the Study: there are four different statuses of a study description in the catalogue:

   1 – Basic Study Description

   2 – Full Study Description

   3 – Full Study Description and Data Description with names of variables from the SPSS data file.

   4 – Full Study description and XML DDI Codebook Data description with full questions text.

 

4. 4. Study Classification: information on the quality of the study. Studies are given grades from 1 to 9. studies of highest quality are given grades from 7 to 9 and are given the status of a scientific publication.


 

5. Study Citation: research data need to be referenced as any other material, used in our writings. Here we suggest how to cite an individual study, however the citation example may be adjusted to your needs or to the needs of the publisher. Regardless of the citation type you plan to use, you are, according to the Article 5 of the General terms of Use, obliged to cite studies from the Catalogue of the ADP.


 

6. COBISS link: if a study is listed in the COBISS system, a link is given to the notation in the COBISS system.


 

7. Publication Date: the date when the study was first published in the Catalogue of the ADP.

 

8. Similar Studies: if a study is part of a serie, then links to similar studies are provided.

 

 

a) Description of Buttons

 

b) Study Description

On Nesstar Browser you can see study descriptions and analyses of research data in three different tabs, namely Description, Tabulation and Analysis.

 

Study Description, together with frequencies distribution, is possible to see in the tab Description. In the tab Tabulation, you can see a one or more dimensional analysis of selected variables. The tab Analysis enables the possibility to calculate the Pearson correlation coefficient and do linear regressions.

By clicking on the plus sign in the section Metadata and Variable Description you can access individual subfields of the study description. This is the same description as found on the web page of the ADP, however, the description is more detailed.  

 

Full Study Description is visible on the right hand side, when Metadata is clicked.

 

 Attention: When a data file is not accessible(for example in international studies, where the ADP does not distribute data), the tabs Tabulation and Analysis are not active!

 

c) Variable Description

Variables can be found in the section Variable Description. By clicking the plus sign we can open the list of variables that are found in the data file. The list is divided according to topics, found in the questionnaire.

 

By clicking a variable, information on the variable will be shown. This can include:

• name of the variable and its description,
• full question text.