Colectica for Excel: Using DDI Lifecycle with Spreadsheets

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

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