Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States] (ICPSR 4375)

Version Date: Oct 17, 2007

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Principal Investigator(s):
Thomas Stieve, Brown University. Rockefeller Library; Edward Chu, Brown University. Rockefeller Library

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04375.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Stieve, Thomas, and Chu, Edward. Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-10-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04375.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2005

Date of Collection

2005-10

Data Collection Notes

  1. 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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Universe

All the faculty, students, and staff members of Brown University

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

automatic mailing listserver (LISTSERV)

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2007-10-17

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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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