SDR 1.0 Master Box: Harmonized Cross-National Survey Data on Democratic Values

SDR 1.0 Master Box is a harmonized dataset from the project 'Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling in Cross-National Perspective'. It consists of five linked data files containing individual-level survey data and contextual metadata. The dataset was created by Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, with a known data alert issued on August 22, 2018.

Use Cases

• Multi-level modeling of individual protest behavior based on harmonized target variables and country-level contextual data.
• Comparative analysis of democratic values across nations using harmonized survey data.
• Data quality assessment for cross-national surveys using the provided flags for non-unique and missing case IDs.
• Studying the relationship between contextual metadata and individual attitudes using the linked PLUG files.

Strengths

• Dataset structure includes five linked files for multi-level analysis (individual, country, country-year, survey, wave).
• Core MASTER file contains harmonized variables and data quality control flags.
• Project documentation and a dedicated data alert page provide transparency on known issues.

Limitations

• Row count, file size, and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source cross-national surveys.

Provenance

Source

Project: 'Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling in Cross-National Perspective'.

Collection Method

Harmonization of individual-level data from cross-national surveys.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided input.

Freshness

A data alert was issued on 2018/08/22; last full update is unknown.

Geography

Cross-national, but specific countries are not listed in the provided input.