UK DATA ARCHIVE DOCUMENTATION

SN 5100 - Transition Out of the Parental Home in Britain, 
	    Spain and Norway, 2001-2002

A qualitative methods collection


Data Archive Processing Standards
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The data were processed to the UK Data Archive's ‘A’ standard. A 
rigorous and comprehensive series of checks was carried out to ensure 
the quality of the data and documentation. Any data or documentation
that breached confidentiality rules were altered or suppressed to preserve
anonymity.

All notable and/or outstanding problems discovered are detailed under 
the ‘Data and documentation problems’ heading below. 

Conversion of data and documentation formats
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Data: MS Word files converted to Rich Text Format (RTF).

Documentation:
All electronic and paper documentation supplied with this study is 
normally incorporated into the UKDA User Guide (in PDF format). The 
conversion programmes used are the latest versions of Adobe PDF Writer 
for electronic documentation and Adobe Paper Capture (Acrobat 'plugin' 
version) for paper documentation. Occasionally, some or all of the 
electronic documentation cannot be usefully converted to PDF (e.g. MS 
Excel files with wide worksheets) and this is supplied in other formats. 
All User Guides are fully bookmarked.

Data and documentation problems
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No problems encountered.

Useful Notes
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Users should note that the interviews held in Bilbao have been deposited
in Spanish language only. No translation is currently included in the
UKDA study.