Legend for File Names

The file names of study related documents provided on these pages are composed of the

  • Study Identifier (ZA**** / **** = four-digit study number) and codes on the type of content.
  • In in case of international studies further codes on countries and applied languages are appended.
ZA****.dta Data in Stata format
ZA****.por Data in SPSS portable format
ZA****.sav Data in SPSS format
ZA****_fb.pdf Feldfragebogen - Field Questionnaire in German language
ZA****_q.pdf Field Questionnaire in English language
ZA****_bq.pdf

 

ZA****_bq_xx.pdf

Basic (reference) Questionnaire.
In case there are various language versions an additional country code (ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code)
is appended , e.g.
  • ZA3626_bq_en.pdf - Basic Questionnaire in English language
  • ZA3626_bq_fr.pdf - Basic Questionnaire in French language
ZA****_q_xx.pdf  Country specific field questionnaire; xx = ISO country code, e.g. FR (France)  in "ZA****_q_fr.pdf"
ZA****_q_xx-xx.pdf In case there are various  language versions of a country field questionnaire,
the language code (ISO 639-1) is attached to the ISO country code.
  • Example: Field Questionnaire from South Africa in
    • ZA4950_q_za-af.pdf - Africaans
    • ZA4950_q_za-en.pdf - English
    • ZA4950_q_za-ts.pdf - Tsonga
    • ZA4950_q_za-tn.pdf - Tswana
    • ZA4950_q_za-xh.pdf - Xhosa
    • ZA4950_q_za-zu.pdf - Zulu

A second ISO country code is attached for the time being if most convenient:

  • ZA3940_q_fi-fi.pdf - Finish questionnaire in Finish language
  • ZA3940_q_fi-se.pdf - Finish questionnaire in Swedish language
ZA****_cdb.pdf Codebook - created in the Archive
ZA****_cod.pdf Codebook - created by the data depositor
ZA****_mb.pdf Methodenbericht - method report in German language
ZA****_mr.pdf Method Report  - method report in English language
ZA****_sb.pdf Studienbeschreibung - study description in German language
ZA****_sd.pdf Study Description - study description in English language
  In case a closer definition is required, it is done in "speaking names“, e.g.:
ZA****_readme.pdf or ZA****_wave1_q.pdf