The standardized data collecting format
(SORD FORMAT)

SORD data archive collects following 5 items with each survey case.
The floppy disks are to be formatted into MS-DOS or Macintosh style.

１）Questionnaire Sheets

Copies of the questionnaire. Floppy disks are also available if the researchers have inputted them into computers.

２）Original data files

Data files contain coded responses.if the researcher decides some variables not to be open, substitute them by blanks or other marks.
his data is basically recorded as text files, but permits another software files, like as Excel-book style.

３）Codebooks

Codebooks have to be made by either styles below, and recorded into floppy disks as text files.
The researchers are requested to explicitly show the relationships between questions and colunms, values and value labels.

(1)ＳＰＳＳ／ＳＡＳ Program

ａ）Codebooks must include Colunm Numbers, Question Numbers, Variable Labels, and Value Labels.

ｂ）Codebooks can be substituted with Syntax programs, Simple Statistics programs.

(2) Spread Sheet Software or Database Software

Question Numbers, Variable Labels and Value Labels must be included. Show the layouts and relationships of them by some papers．

(3) Other

Question Numbers, Variable Labels and Value Labels must be included, and they are to be recorded into text files.

(4) Terms of use

The original researcher can add terms of use, and record them as text files.

(5) Data Input Programs and Simple Statistics Program
(ＳＡＳ／ＳＰＳＳ)

(6) File Names in Floppy Disks

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