This presentation will introduce the latest longitudinal study to use DDI Lifecycle and Colectica software. The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from the Wisconsin stat (U.S.) high schools in 1957. Since then, there have been six rounds of survey data collected from the original respondents and the sample has been...
High quality metadata is a prerequisite for any data producer in contemporary research. The [Generations and Gender Programme][1] has a strong interest in this matter. The GGP is a cross-national (Europe and beyond) longitudinal survey providing data on a variety of topics including partnerships, fertility, work-life balance, transition to adulthood and later life. The documentation of the...
Beyond documentation, machine-actionable survey metadata offer a wide range of possibilities for more efficient and less error-prone survey management.
We want to illustrate how the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) made use of metadata throughout the survey life cycle in its newly recruited Starting Cohort 8, a panel sample of 5th graders which started in 2022. With this new...
