S urvey R esearch D ata A rchive: Current Status and Challenges Ly-Yun Chang Executive Director, Center for Survey Research, RCHSS Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology Academia Sinica Taiwan

Outline 1. Introduction 2. Major Activities 3. Challenges

High Quality Data Utility SRDA Multi-levels Data Panel Data 1. SRDA Introduction Large-scale Data

Organization Chart for C enter for S urvey R esearch The Survey Research Data Archive at Academia Sinica, Taiwan Executive Director Executive Secretary Survey Division Administrative Division IT Division. Data Division Face Interview Telephone Survey Other Surveys Data Archiving Data Management Digital Application IT Staff Programmers Administrative Sec. Accountants Clerical Staff

Organization Chart for C enter for S urvey R esearch

Current Status of Data Archive Thematic categories Social change, nutrition and health, education, election and democratization Labor force, family income, earnings and productivity Types of data Cross-sectional, panel, quasi-longitudinal Public use data, restricted data, on-site data Record unit Individual, firm, school, town or village (tsun, li) Access

Government (Survey) 966 datasets 34.13 GB 145 applicants Government (Census) 25 datasets 13.82 GB Commercial Databanks 9 datasets 3.37 GB Academic (Public) 876 datasets 7.82 GB 2,039 download 2008 Academic (Restricted) 64 datasets 0.88 GB 55 uses Academic (on-site) 3 datasets 0.79 GB 66 uses Membership 1,571 members, including 23 foreign scholars

Materials Available for Members R aw data (SPSS,STATA,SAS), codebooks, s tatistical s oftware programs, User’s Guide

Server Structure entrance On-site PC 1 On-site PC 2 On-site PC 4 / Server / Printer On-site PC 3 locker entrance On-site Data Laboratory

Server Structure

2. Major Activities To append or merge panel data To create quasi-longitudinal data from cross-sectional surveys To provide different kinds of search tool on the SRDA website

S earch tools on the SRDA website

Nesstar (Interactive data exploration online) - A powerful search tool 2 datasets find

Nesstar - Provide on-line analysis

More Major Activities (Response the User’s Voice) Transpose data structure Calculate weights for population estimation Develop variable naming systems

Promotion Activities Workshops Data processing and archiving Confidential data access Panel data Categorical data analysis Sampling techniques Event history data analysis Questionnaire design Publications Journal of Survey Research SRDA Newsletter (Quarterly ) SRDA E-digest (Biweekly)

SRDA Newsletter (Quarterly )

3. Challenges Government SRDA Users Academic

Stricter regulation Computer-Processed Personal Data Protection Law Data linkage Lack of policy or guidelines on how to manage privacy issues when linking data. Unequal access Remote access / execution International Collaboration Translation into other languages

Translation into other languages

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