A major goal of the NEPS is to provide scientific use data to the international research community. For this purpose, the NEPS has set up a Research Data Center (RDC) that offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, allowing researchers to gain access to and work with NEPS data effectively. The RDC’s support concept combines well-known approaches with innovative means of data documentation, data ...
This chapter discusses the core elements of the metadata strategy striving for a structured approach to documentation, which is necessary to efficiently link, deduplicate, re-use, and present all information in two languages for the six panels and two school-reform studies of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). For this purpose, the NEPS Data Center has implemented a relational database that ...
For many questions in the social sciences that are supposed be answered with survey data, reliable and detailed information about occupations is crucial. As classifications for occupations are very extensive and complex, it is not feasible to simply present a full scheme to the respondent. To overcome this issue, an open string is queried from the respondent and later converted to an appropriate entry ...
