[DDI-CDG] Some summaries

[Mari Kleemola]

Hi all!

As the Alliance meeting is approaching, I've been reading through the 
CDG papers. It is obvious that we still lack shared concepts but the 
good thing is that we seem to at least implicitly know what we are 
talking about.

Being quite inexperienced in the field of documenting complec surveys, I 
   find the discussion so far interesting but a bit confusing. To 
clarify my own thoughts, I wrote a couple of summary papers. I am not at 
all sure whether I have caught all the essential ideas (or that those I 
have caught I have understood right), but I've attached the summaries 
here in the hope that they might prove helpful for the group and for our 
discussions.

In the first paper I present just another way to think about the survey 
typology and try to sum up the terms used. The second paper is a 
collection of the "demands" to DDI, listed by the papers I found them 
in. I thought this could help in deciding about possible new 
elements/structures needed etc. For example the references/links between 
different levels seems to pop up quite often.

In the end of Reto's paper "Handling the repeated cross-national 
datasets (draft 3, Hadorn, 7.3.2005)" he mentions the "demands to EKKE", 
  would be interesting to know more about them.

All the best,
Mari
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