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Notes from Codebook Meeting 2016-04-26, 8am EDT |
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Present: Dan Gillman, Steve McEachern, Jared, Oliver Hopt, Gillian Kerr, Kristiyan Panayotov Gillian Kerr and Kristiyan Panayotov join the group, Steve and Jared we take care of access to websites and mailing lists. Continue of discussion on Variables in SCDecisions on the level of information we want to keep in and out of simple codebook should be left to the point, when the other views and packages are a bit more sattled. The main direction of the further discussion in the next meetings will therefore go on to the definition, what we would expact to be documented for a variable and its surrounding classes. Main Question: What do we wnat to seen in a codebook, especially a basic one? What is a variable? - What is the meaning of a variable? - Characteristic - Population - Is a variable the same, if everything is the same but the population? (Sex of humans and/or bears) - What are the values of a variable?
Extending the usecases especially from Gillian, which sounded to be quite complex while fitting into SC. |
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Codebook meeting 2 February 2016 Attending: Dan, Michelle, Steve, Oliver, Jon, Larry, Jared There’s some lack of clarity about where this group is at. Discussed what to include in simple codebooks. One idea is to review the spreadsheet of common elements (summary of CESSDA) and build on that. Essentials seem to include: enough information to read the data into statistical package, label values, understand universe, understand what measure means so you can interpret the data, attribution information. Another idea is to look at examples of simple codebooks, identify what they use, and then map to a model. We need to be careful to keep things simple. Even older versions of DDI 2 weren’t exactly simple. If we nail down definitions, then do we make instances of previous versions incompatible? As we define what information elements we want in DDI 4.0, we can specify which element you want in 2 if you’re going backwards. Next steps:
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