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Apart from the first session, the event will take place as an asynchronous online event via ZOOM. The first session is on 3.11.2020, 10:00 a.m. All further dates will be arranged individually. If you cannot attend the first session, please send an e-mail to claudia.saalbach@uni-potsdam.de. https://uni-potsdam.zoom.us/j/4723315921 Meeting ID: 472 331 5921 Password: 63969644 close

Anyone who has ever conducted a survey knows that numerous work steps are required before the final report is produced. A questionnaire is designed and programmed - possibly even for different modes (mail, web, CAPI, CATI) or languages. The collected data is labelled, analysed and presented in the form of result tables and graphics. Often, questionnaire information such as question and answer texts, variable names, values and value labels are repeatedly typed into the computer during these steps, which is not only time-consuming but also error-prone, thus impairing the quality of the results. Structured metadata enable a method of working in which the questionnaire information only has to be entered once. Instead of typing in the questionnaire information over and over again, a metafile is read out. You will learn how to do this in this seminar. The seminar is organised asynchronously and has a workshop character, whereby you will work on individual survey projects. A questionnaire, which you can choose yourself, serves as a basis. You program this questionnaire as a machine-readable paper questionnaire and as an online questionnaire. You will learn how to accelerate the programming with the help of a structured metafile. For the individual questionnaires, fictitious answer data is simulated for practice purposes, which you use to create dynamic result tables and graphics. In addition to programming, the seminar also teaches the basics of the visual design principles of questionnaires, tables and graphics. The material is provided weekly at a fixed date. In order to provide you with the best possible support for your project, you will receive individual feedback every week via a zoom meeting. The dates can be arranged individually. Knowledge of Stata and/or R is a prerequisite for participation in the seminar, knowledge of LaTeX is desirable but not necessary. The software used in the seminar is freely available: LaTeX (Overleaf), SurveyAMC, Limesurvey, Auto-Multiple-Choice, ClickAMC, R. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) close