Past Webinars

Priority

high

Presenter(s)

Arofan Gregory (DDI-L)

CLOSER – Becky Oldroyd

Insee –  Éric Sigaud 

StatsCan – Flavio Rizzolo

Date(s) proposed

May 22nd, 2024 at 13h UTC (9am EDT, 15h CEST) 

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Content description

Questions and the questionnaires in which they are used serve as an important focus when reusing data, but also serve as a resource which can be used to maximise comparability across studies, and to make the design of questionnaires more efficient. Further, a rigorous description of survey logic and flow can provide the basis for automation of the data collection process, heightening efficiencies for longitudinal and other repeated surveys.

This webinar looks at the DDI structures for describing questions and survey instruments. Our guest speakers illustrate how this metadata can be leveraged to best effect, with examples from CLOSER, a collaborative digital infrastructure for longitudinal population studies, data and research, and two national statistics agencies: Insee (the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies), and StatsCan (Statistics Canada). Becky Oldroyd, Metadata Officer at CLOSER, shares the ways that rich metadata at the variable-, question- and questionnaire-level improves the discoverability of data for longitudinal, cross-study research. Éric Sigaud describes how Insee is developing open-source tooling to support metadata-driven workflows, such as automated creation of survey instruments. Finally,  Flavio Rizzolo talks about StatsCan’s ongoing work of adopting DDI-Lifecycle tools to design and manage questionnaires using Colectica together with the agency’s in-house data tools and systems.

Related DDI

Related DDI training slides:

Questions

Introducing Question and Instrument Structures

Q&A questions

• Highlight users/stakeholders that benefit

  • Two implementers: Statistics agencies

  • CLOSER: Researchers’ use case, spend a lot of time documenting metadata they receive

• Mentioning multilingual support! French, for now. 

Notes

Metadata-driven workflows. Best way to do this: questions & questionnaires, and best ways to do it

Contents:

• DDI-L overview

• Use cases:

  • CLOSER- Use Case (dissemination), using metadata to find variables

  • Insee- Start from metadata, develop questionnaires (metadata-driven workflow, open-source tooling developed at Insee. Very new tooling.

  • StatCan- Idea becoming more widespread, Colectica for questionnaires. Not there yet, but integrating with system developed in-house. Two different pictures: Colectica as metadata repository, in the future it’s going to be more about integrating tools, with Colectica as questionnaire design.

• Discussion/Q&A

Flow

1. Alicia (Laura?): Intro/housekeeping (5 mins)

2. DDI Lifecycle (Arofan, 20 mins)

3. CLOSER Use Case (dissemination) Hayley/Becky (15 mins)

4. INSEE (Eric - 15-20)

5. Stats Can (Flavio 10-15)

6. Q&A - Alicia discussant (15-20)