Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States] (ICPSR 4375)
Version Date: Oct 17, 2007 View help for published
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Thomas Stieve, Brown University. Rockefeller Library;
Edward Chu, Brown University. Rockefeller Library
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04375.v1
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The purpose of this data collection is to assess the needs of Brown University students, faculty, and staff regarding researching and analyzing numeric and spatial data, and government information (documents) in the social sciences fields, as well as how the social sciences data resources librarian can improve its services in assisting in studies and research. The data were collected via an online survey posted through a listserver to the entire Brown University community. Respondents were asked to give their opinions about learning different statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, as well as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Other questions involved respondents' interest in using different information sources such as government statistics, state information and international information.
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Part 2, Interview Data, of the study contains all the open-ended questions and responses. Please note that only valid responses have been included in the file.
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All the faculty, students, and staff members of Brown University
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automatic mailing listserver (LISTSERV)
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2007-10-17
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- Stieve, Thomas, and Edward Chu. Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States]. ICPSR04375-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-10-17. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04375.v1
2007-10-17 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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