Metode & Data 91 C - DDA Samfund - Dansk Data Arkiv

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By ANNE SOFIE FINK KJELDGAARD AND BIRGITTE GRØNLUND JENSEN, DDA
It is time for Metode & Data. The issue of
2005 brings three articles which present
methodological aspects related to the three
research fields that DDA is covering, namely
social science, medical science and history.
Furthermore, we bring news from the institution
of DDA in the form of a text about
the newly established unit, DDA Health,
and a short annual report for 2004 for DDA.
Finally, we bring 20 descriptions of studies
that have been fully prepared for secondary
analyses.
Joachim Scholderer, Lone Bredahl and
Julia Stacey contribute an article from the
field of social science. The article „Experimental
designs in consumers research – Market
opportunities for new meat types“is based
on three different research designs – focus
group interviews, a traditional survey and
an information experiment. These designs
all intend to inform researchers about how
consumers form opinions about the quality
of meat with regard from different ways of
production.
In the article „Qualitative patients comments
– application for open response categories
in surveys“, Mette Fritze, Rikke Gut
and Morten Freil discuss how the Unit of
Patient Evaluation of Copenhagen County
has worked systematically and in a structured
way with qualitative comments that
have been collected in the county’s on-going
surveys of patient satisfaction. The article
inspires greater utilisation of qualitative comments
that may be incorporated in surveys
so that these reach further into the phase of
analysis than to serve as basis for the quantitative
interpretation.
Jens Ringsmose has written an essay about
political scientists and contemporary historians.
The title „The fysics envious scientist
and the archivist“ is thought provoking. The
article sheds light on the boundaries between
political science and history as they find
expression when the domain – contemporary
history – is in common. Ringsmose finishes
his essay by some examples of how research
approaches and methods could be shared
across the disciplines.
The last two texts of this issue are, as mentioned,
reports which provides knowledge
about daily work in DDA and in DDA Health.
The DDA Health Unit was established this
spring to gather, preserve and disseminate
the use of data within the field of medical
research. The unit is to a great extent based
on work performed in the former ERAS – the
Unit of Registration and Storage of Medical
Research Data. After the report from DDA
Health you will find the annual report 2004
for DDA.
Finally, we bring, as usual, descriptions
of data sets that have been fully prepared for
new analyses since last issue. Descriptions
of data sets are continuously reported on
our website as soon as the data are ready for
analysis. I therefore urge everyone to check
up on our website now and then. In this issue
topics of data sets ready for analysis are: local
government elections, cross-border trade,
refugees, children’s sports participation,
school enrolment, attitudes to pork, food and
lifestyle, willingness to pay in relation to the
prevention of road accidents, patient satisfaction
and disease prevention.
Enjoy reading this issue!
Metode & Data nr. 91 – 2005 side 56