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.
In some instances, we have included questionnaires with color coding.
Red means that the question was in the previous round but was removed for the current round.
Green means that the question was added.
Gray means that the questions were asked but the data are not available for public use - the questions were added at the request of the Pension office and are for their use only.
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.
Download the Questionnaires
Phase I
Phase II
