What is surveycodings.org?
Surveycodings.org is a free service for survey projects, data archives and researchers measuring and coding socio-economic background variables and more general social science classifications. It provides questionnaires, data collection tools, coding frames, and classifications based on standard statistical classifications for a large number of countries and languages. SurveyCodings covers the following individual and socio-economic variables: industry, occupation, educational attainment, field of education, religious denominations, social networks, cost of living, and region. Provided materials can be used to collect harmonised and cross-nationally comparable data as well as for post-hoc harmonisation of already collected data (e.g. coding of open-ended questions).
Why do we need surveycodings.org?
The services on surveycodings.org aim at obtaining consistent and comparable data by: