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COLECTICA FOR EXCEL: USING DDI LIFECYCLE WITH SPREADSHEETS
NADDI 2013
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In This Talk
Brief Overview of DDI-L Colectica for Excel: a free tool to
document Datasets, Variables, and Code Lists
Import Stata and SPSS
Generate codebook documentation Demonstration
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DDI Lifecycle
Uses DDI version 3.1 In this tool, DDI-L documents and
identifies datasets, variables, codelists, and categories
Enables reuse of metadata through unique identification Variables can share the same code list
Records audit trail through versioning
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Colectica for Excel
Free
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Colectica for Excel
Document Datasets
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Colectica for Excel
Document Variables
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Colectica for Excel
Record custom fields
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Colectica for Excel
Document Code Lists
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Colectica for Excel
Reuse a code list
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Import SPSS and Stata
Import SPSS and Stata Save labels and descriptions in DDI-L Import Code Lists
Harmonize code lists
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Publish Documentation
Generate Code books from Excel PDF, HTML, XSL-FO
Publish DDI 3.1 XML
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Demonstration
Demonstration
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Colectica for Excel - vNext
Available now with Colectica 4.1 Allow importing already existing code
lists and variable descriptions Colectica for Excel SDK to allow
programmatic generation of documented spreadsheets
14 Thank you
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