Tom Piazza
DDI Files from New Data Collections

piazza@csm.berkeley.edu

How do you create a DDI file for a new survey? That is what I will illustrate, based on the experience of a "data producer" -- the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

I will show how we have begun to do this in a modular fashion, dealing in different ways with:
-Study-level information
-Variable descriptions
-Variable groups

Looked at in this way, the job becomes a little more manageable and less intimidating than as a single large task.

Tom Piazza
CSM Program and Survey Research Center
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-5100
(510) 642-6569
piazza@csm.berkeley.edu