european quality of life survey 2007 (ukds: sn 6299)sn 6299
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European Quality of Life Survey 2007
(UKDS: SN 6299)
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Teachers need ready-to-use files requiring little or no further preparation. Students may only have one semester of classes and lab sessions. Researchers need to factor in budgets, time, opportunity costs etc. All need to be up and running in the very first session.
Criteria for ease of understanding and (immediate) use of SPSS files:
• Full and clear documentation, including (facsimile) questionnaire • SPSS saved files well designed and easy to navigate• Names and/or variable labels easily linked to questionnaire• Variables in questionnaire order, not alphabetical order• Variable and value labels short but clear• Value labels to include question number, unless it is the variable name• Value labels in Mixed Case and literate• Missing values correctly and consistently assigned and declared• Measurement levels correctly assigned
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Report
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Printed questionnaire (Appendix in report)
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(also contains Questionnaire translated into all languages used)
pdf in UKDS documentation
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1: Question number is also variable name
2: Question number repeated at beginning of variable label
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No missing values specified
Measurement levels all Scale
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Good points: 1: Variable names tally with question numbers
2: Variable labels have question numbers at beginning.
This means duplication if SPSS set to display both names and labels, but means dialog boxes always display question number if SPSS set to display only one of these.
Pedantic/aesthetic points: 1: Some (derived) integer variables still have 2 decimal places. 2: Variable labels far too long.
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Response rate 58% UK 33.5% !!!
N = 35,634 N = 1507
364 variables
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Bad points (apart from abysmal response rate): 1: Age is coded in groups at hh2b [I was about to issue a fatwah for the culprits, but later found the full range of original ages in CVhh2b.]
2: Most variable levels are declared as Scale, a few Nominal, but many of these are Ordinal. All statistical indices declared as Nominal, but they are actually single statistical values, even the ones declared as strings. 3: Ridiculously long variable names and variable labels: OK for publication quality tables, but cumbersome to work with 4: System missing values everywhere, but very few user-missing values declared. 5: Coding system for DK, INAP, Refused completely inconsistent.
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Ridiculously long variable names
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Ridiculously long variable labels
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Shorter labels better
Could be improved with a colon and double space after Q.*_*
Q10_1: My work is too demanding and stressful
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Needs additional SPSS syntax to specify:
variable levelsmissing valuesformats (for integers with superfluous decimals)
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[Live demo here]
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I also prefer to re-arrange the variable attribute columns
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. . to bring the more important ones to the left
This can also be done by highlighting the column header and dragging the whole column left or right across the Data Editor
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You don’t really need half of them, so drag the right edge in
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All I really need appears in this window:
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I can check everything using
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Opening window Scroll down to find variables
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Click on
Highlight variables you want Click on to transfer to other pane
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All current information for the highlighted variable is displayed, including a count for each value encountered
Any editing generates syntax which can be saved using
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Now for something more complex:
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3: Understanding Society 2010
Previously the British Household Panel Survey
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)(University of Essex)