[DDI-ADG] survey definitions

[Katherine McNeill-Harman]

Considering Wendy's email,

"The detailed contents of these lists can be hashed out after the October 
SRG meeting with representatives of the working groups. What is important 
at this point is to a) make sure that all fields requiring controlled 
vocabulary are identified, b) provide justification if its not clear, and 
c)  provide a preliminary list with term (or T1, T2 etc) and definitions.

it sounds like we could be working on "c) provide a preliminary list with 
term (or T1, T2 etc) and definitions."

So selecting one of the sources could be one way to do it.  I don't have a 
judgment as to which is more authoritative.  And depending upon which terms 
we want to define, some appeared in one source but not others.

Kate

At 01:07 PM 8/1/2005 -0400, Mary Vardigan wrote:
>Kate and others,
>
>These definitions are really helpful. Should we be thinking about 
>selecting one source as the definitive one?
>
>Mary
>
>At 05:23 PM 7/27/2005, Katherine McNeill-Harman wrote:
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I went through our social science methods reference books and compiled 
>>the attached list of different survey definitions.  It's a lengthy Word 
>>document (if anyone can't read this format, I'll put it in a plain-text 
>>email to you).  Pages 1-14 are organized by topics, with the different 
>>definitions for a topic listed on a single page; pages 15-20 are the 
>>definitions organized by their source.
>>
>>Couple of notes:
>>- I included those terms that we'd specifically discussed as well as 
>>others that were mentioned or I picked up along the way.
>>- I didn't really do an analysis, but in typing them in they seemed 
>>fairly consistent in meaning (even if not in exact wording)
>>- In terms of the likelihood of these changing, several current 
>>dictionaries referenced definitions developed a couple of decades ago, so 
>>it seems unlikely they'd change very often (maybe more likely that new 
>>models would need to be added).
>>
>>Kate
>>
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___________________________________________
Katherine McNeill-Harman
Data Services Librarian
Dewey Library for Management and Social Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E53-100
Cambridge, MA 02139
mcneillh at mit.edu
617-253-0787