Question Database Workshop - 28 January 2011

 

The workshop on Question database organised by the Réseau Quetelet will take place in Paris on Friday, 28th January 2011. 

The increase in the number of surveys archived and disseminated raises new challenges for data archives and researchers. Indeed, without new tools, the growth of the number of surveys makes it increasingly difficult for users to identify surveys that are relevant for them. Without new tools, combining different surveys with similar questions to conduct comparative research is also increasingly a daunting task. Survey designers who wish to reuse questions asked in previous surveys also need tools to find similar questions.

This workshop will be the occasion for data archives specialists, data producers and social scientists to share thoughts and experiences on this topic. Several data archives will present their existing application or their project toward question database. The comparison of these applications will certainly bring up fruitful discussions on challenges for research and data archiving and data producers.

For more information about existing question banks, consult the list provided by the UK Data Archive.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Lunch is included only for registered attendees.

Sciences Po
98 rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris
Room Annick Percheron

The workshop venue can be accessed by the Paris underground:
Metro 12, station Assemblée nationale or Solferino
RER C, station Musée d'Orsay
Location map

 

Program

8:30 - Registration, coffee
9:00 – Introduction Laurent Lesnard (CDSP-Sciences Po, France) and Roxane Silberman (Réseau Quetelet, France)
9:30 – Session 1 – New challenges for researchers, data producers and data archives

• Nanna Floor Clausen (DDA, Danemark) Question Bank - new and comparative research at a glance
• Marion Wittenberg (DANS, Netherlands) Cultural Changes in the Netherlands, a dedicated question bank
• Sanda Ionescu (ICPSR, USA) The Social Science Variables Database at ICPSR

11:00 – Coffee break

11:30 – Discussion 1 – What do researchers and other users expect from question database?
Pascale Breuil (INSEE, France), Tanvi Desai (LSE, United Kingdom), Dominique Joye (University of Lausanne, Swiss), Stéphane Legleye (INED, France), Vincent Tiberj (CEE-Sciences Po, France), Louis-André Vallet (CREST, France)

12:30 – Lunch (sandwiches provided for registered attendees)
14:00 – Session 2 – Implementation, design and documentation issues

• Alerk Amin (CentERdata, Netherlands) The Language Management Utility: a Question Bank for Survey Implementors
• Alerk Amin (CentERdata, Netherlands) The LISS Data Archive Website: Questions, Variables, and More
• Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Xavier Schepler (Réseau Quetelet, France) Social Science Question Database and Research Tools

15:15 – Coffee break
15:30 – Session 2 (continued)

• Johan Fihn (SND, Sweden) Swedish National Data Service’s Question Bank
• Jack Kneeshaw (UKDA, University of Essex, UK) The UK's Survey Question Bank: Present and future developments

16:30 – Discussion 2 – What should data archives carry out?
Uwe Jensen (GESIS, Germany), Brian Kleiner (FORS, Swiss), Laurent Lesnard (CDSP-Sciences Po, France), Roxane Silberman (Réseau Quetelet, France)

18:00 – Cocktail reception