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”).

摘要

本最终可用数据集为预试验原始数据的清洗后版本。本次数据清洗流程包含以下步骤：(1) 剔除在问卷首页即终止作答的参与者；(2) 剔除作答明显不可靠的参与者（即问卷全程仅选择同一选项的参与者）；(3) 剔除年龄标注低于14岁或高于30岁的参与者。

本数据集整合了来自意大利、瑞典、德国、希腊、葡萄牙、捷克共和国、英国及爱沙尼亚的青少年与青年群体提交的1390份Catch-EyoU预试验问卷数据。

构建此跨国数据集的核心目的为测试并比较不同国家的问卷条目与量表质量。鉴于本研究采用的条目与量表特性，目前暂无其他同类可比数据库。

本数据集可供研究人员重复使用，既可用于开展问卷条目与量表的深度分析，亦可在有限范围内开展实质性研究分析。

数据文件详情

技术变量涵盖参与者唯一识别码（ID）、数据收集国家（Country）、队列（Cohort；分为青年组与成年组）、基于参与者实际年龄计算得到的年龄分组（Agegroup_computed）、评估类型（Assess；分为纸质版与线上版）以及问卷版本（Version；版本A与版本B的条目排序存在差异）。需特别说明的是，队列变量并非严格指代参与者的实际年龄，而是用于区分其填写的是针对青少年的定向问卷（青年组）还是针对年轻成年人的定向问卷（成年组）。

本数据文件采用专有格式（SPSS .sav格式），但可通过免费统计计算与绘图软件环境"R"，借助各类"R"扩展包（如"foreign"包）完成读取与打开操作。