CATCH-EyoU: Processes in Youth's Construction of Active EU Citizenship: Cross-national Pilot Questionnaires

Abstract

This final working dataset is a cleaned version of raw data from our pilot study. The cleaning procedure involved (1) removing participants who left the survey on first pages of the questionnaire; (2) removing participants with clearly unreliable responses (i.e. choosing the same response option through the questionnaire); (3) removing participants who indicated age under 14 or over 30.

The data set integrates the data resulting from 1390 Catch-EyoU Pilot Questionnaires submitted to adolescents and young adults from Italy, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, UK, and Estonia.

The purpose of creating this cross-national data set is to test and compare the quality of items and scales across countries. Given the nature of items and scales a comparable data base does not exist elsewhere.

The data can be reused by researchers who want to run more in-depth analyses of the items and scales as well as to a limited extent for substantive analyses.

File specifics

Technical variables refer to participants’ unique identification code (ID), country of data collection (Country), cohort (Cohort; younger versus older), age group computed based on participants’ age (Agegroup_computed), type of assessment (Assess; paper versus online), and questionnaire version (Version; items were ordered differently between versions A and B). Please note that the cohort variable does not strictly refer to participants’ actual age, but it indicates whether he or she completed the questionnaire intended for adolescents (younger) or young adults (older).

Data file is in a proprietary format (SPSS .sav format) but it can be opened through “R”, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, using different “R” libraries (such as “foreign”).