UK DATA ARCHIVE DOCUMENTATION

5457 - Education and the Working Class, 1944-1960: Some General Themes Raised by a Study of 88 Working-Class Children in a Northern Industrial City, 1946-1960



Data Archive processing standards
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This is a legacy study. The data weas processed to the UK Data 
Archive's 'B' standard. A substantial series of checks was carried out 
to ensure the quality of the data and documentation. Checks were made 
that the number of cases and variables matched the depositor's records.
Any data or documentation that breached confidentiality rules was 
altered or suppressed to preserve anonymity.

All notable and/or outstanding problems discovered are detailed under 
the 'Data and documentation problems' heading below.


Conversion of data and documentation formats
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The data was deposited as a paper collection. This was scanned and 
converted to Adobe PDF format; 255 interviews are available.

All electronic and paper documentation supplied with this study is 
normally incorporated into the UKDA User Guide (in PDF format). The 
conversion programmes used are the latest versions of Adobe PDF Writer 
for electronic documentation and Adobe Paper Capture (Acrobat 'plugin' 
version) for paper documentation. Occasionally, some or all of the 
electronic documentation cannot be usefully converted to PDF (e.g. MS 
Excel files with wide worksheets) and this is supplied in other formats. 
All User Guides are fully bookmarked.

Data and documentation problems
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The researchers adopted pseudonyms for the town and schools in which 
their study was located. These pseudonyms were adopted during the 
fieldwork. However, there are occasional inconsistencies across the 
interviews and the user guide between the use of real names and 
pseudonyms, hence in some cases the name of the school mentioned on 
the data listing and the name of the school discussed in the interviews
differs. For consistency, the names of schools used in the data listing
are the researchers' pseudonyms even if the interviews use the real name.

Users should note that there is no file available for interview 48, which 
may still be referenced in the documentation.

Town
Alias			Real name
Marburton		Huddersfield

Schools
Alias			Real name
Marburton College	Huddersfield College
Ash Grange		Greenhead
Thorpe Manor		Royds Hall
Abbeyford		Almondbury


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Notes from data delivery and post-order corrections
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