# Preservation workflow of the French probabilistic ELIPSS panel at the Center for Socio-Political Data

Alina Danciu, Emmanuelle Duwez, Mathieu Olivier

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Alina Danciu, Emmanuelle Duwez, Mathieu Olivier. Preservation workflow of the French probabilistic ELIPSS panel at the Center for Socio-Political Data. Workflow Webinar Series 2024, Digital Preservation Coalition, Feb 2024, Online, France. http://hdl.handle.net/0001-514632v1

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# Preservation workflow of the French probabilistic ELIPSS panel at the Center for Socio-Political Data

## Digital Preservation Workflow Webinars 2024 - Episode 1

Alina Danciu, Emmanuelle Duwez, Mathieu Olivier
Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data, CNRS (CDSP)
CENTER FOR SOCIO-POLITICAL DATA

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* CDSP, one of the 11 research centers of Sciences Po is jointly supported with financial and human means by both Sciences Po and the CNRS.

* CDSP shares around 400 datasets on its Banque de données, 100 being collected in the ELIPSS panel CDSP is responsible for

* CDSP has received the CoreTrustSeal in 2023
## CDSP'S PRESERVATION MISSION

CDSP's legal statuses : "To insure functions of data dissemination and data preservation"

(in French "Elle assure les fonctions de diffusion et d'archivage de données")).

https://cdsp.sciences-po.fr/fr/le-cdsp/presentation/
## CDSP'S DESIGNATED COMMUNITY

* CDSP's designated community mainly includes **French researchers and students from the social sciences academic community** (Sociology, Political Science, Economics, etc.).

* Around a quarter of our data users are non-French speaking

* Translation of our study-level metadata
# DATA: THE ELIPSS PANEL (1)

A high-quality probability online panel for the scientific community since 2012

- 2012: initial recruitment round (1,039 participants)

- 2016: expansion recruitment round (817 first round + 2,514 additional participants)

- 2020: expansion recruitment round (1,391 first rounds + 890 additional participants)

- 2023: expansion recruitment round (1,736 first rounds + 905 additional participants)

INSEE recruited a random sample of individuals aged over 18 with a fixed address in metropolitan France who can read French
# DATA: THE ELIPSS PANEL (2)

A large production...

- Cross-sectional or longitudinal projects with no thematic restrictions

- Monthly survey, 10 waves per year

- 9 waves designed by research applicants; 1 wave for the ELIPSS core questionnaire

- 20 minutes duration per wave

... to data dissemination for research
# DATA: THE ELIPSS PANEL (3)

## The life cycle of an ELIPSS survey

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1. Co-design of the questionnaire

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2. Questionnaire scheduling

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3. Questionnaire testing

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4. Data collection

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5. Field monitoring & reminders

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6. Production of the data files

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7. Documentation & dissemination
## IN A FEW WORDS...

* More than 100 surveys, available on The *Banque de données of the CDSP* (data.sciencespo.fr)

* With few exceptions, anonymised data is shared to the scientific community

* The two standards we use for data sharing and management are OAIS (Open Archival Information System) and DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)
## PRESERVATION ACTIONS

* Data and metadata preserved in non proprietary formats (CSV, XML) and data is managed using R, Nesstar and Dataverse

* The very complete documentation goes up to the level of the variable:

* Question text

* Universe

* Interviewer instructions

* Response domains

* Notes

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DATA DOCUMENTATION INITIATIVE

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. DDI is a free standard that can document and manage different stages in the research data lifecycle, such as conceptualization, collection, processing, distribution, discovery, and archiving. Documenting data with DDI facilitates understanding, interpretation, and use -- by people, software systems, and computer networks.

https://ddialliance.org/
THE IMPORTANCE OF METADATA

* The ELIPSS surveys are documented using DDI-Codebook

* The entire data lifecycle is managed by the CDSP, so we reuse as much medata as possible (example : when documenting data, we reuse responses from the programming stage).

* Using open standards like DDI allows us to preserve data and metadata
QUESTIONS ?

alina.danciu@sciencespo.fr

emmanuelle.duwez@sciencespo.fr

mathieu.olivier@sciencespo.fr
SOURCES

Matthieu Olivier, Marta Veljkovic, Andrew Zola, Ettore Recchi. Before, During and After the
Deluge: Monitoring the French Resident Population's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic with
a Probability-Based Longitudinal Survey. 9th conference of the European Survey Research
Association (ESRA), Jul 2023, Milan, Italy. (hal-04266079)

Emmanuelle Duwez. ELIPSS, a French Internet probability-based panel. 10 years of challenges. 9th conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Jul 2023, Milan, Italy. ffhal04228822f