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Questionnaires

Our questionnaires are available in Adobe PDF format. Opening an Acrobat file with the Acrobat Reader allows the user to view documents on-screen before printing them. See the Adobe Acrobat homepage to download the Acrobat Reader free of charge.

The most important pieces of documentation for our data sets are the questionnaires. The questionnaire files are English-language translations of the original Russian questionnaires. The English versions have been translated as literally as possible. The order of the questions and layout of the pages have been preserved in the English versions. You can download these files directly to your computer. If text appears on your screen after you click on a file name, use the SAVE command to save what appears on the screen as a file. Be sure the file has a PDF extension (*.pdf). You can then view and print this file with the Acrobat Reader.

Our questionnaires function as both questionnaires and codebooks. The variable names as they appear in the data sets are usually listed below or to the left of the questions. If the abbreviation (char) appears with a variable name, then the responses to that question are stored in a character variable. If there is no variable name associated with a particular question, then the responses to that question do not appear in the data set.

The original Russian-language questionnaires are available for Rounds IX-XIII only. The questionnaire files are very large PDF files that have been compressed into ZIP files for faster downloading. After you have downloaded the files, use decompression software and the Acrobat Reader to view and print them. Please note that, unlike the English-language versions, variable names do not appear in the Russian-language versions.

 

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