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Question Bank – new and comparative research at a glance

Nanna Floor Clausen

Danish Data Archives

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The presentation

The construction of a good questionnaire How a question bank can contribute

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The construction of a questionnaire

Purpose of the survey Clarity Transparency Order of questions Lay-out

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The questions

Question wording Response categories Test of questionnaire

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The road towards a question bank

Search catalogue Topic catalogue

Question Bank Search in variable level

meta data

Search in meta data

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What’s in a question database?

Question wording Response categories Order of questions Access to related information

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Demo of Question database at DDA

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Questionnaire

Questionnaire

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Why is a QB important?

The quality of a question determines the quality of the survey

Direct access to the question wording Shares the competence of designing

questions and questionnaires Improved data service

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The roles of a Question database

Additional methods for identifying surveys New possibilities for comparative research Support in the construction of new questionnaires

and questions New possibility for generating time series Longitudinal analysis of a question Research on the question formulations More open access and insight into the surveys ……………....and much more

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Questions

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