In accordance with the depositor's wishes, these data were made open (no registration required). Names on all documents (pdfs, jpgs and rtfs) have been removed to ensure confidentiality.
The data were processed to the UK Data Archive's A* standard. This is the Archive's highest standard, and means that an extremely rigorous and comprehensive series of checks was carried out to ensure the quality of the data and documentation. Also, any data or documentation that breached confidentiality rules were altered or suppressed where needed to preserve anonymity.
All notable and/or outstanding problems discovered are detailed under the 'Data and documentation problems' heading below.
The essays for this study were first transcribed from hand writing to rtf with typos retained. The study was then enhanced as part of the Digital Futures project for ingest into QualiBank, the UK Data Service's online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data. Previously the transcriptions of the essays retained spelling mistakes to maintain integrity of the data. When these transcriptions were converted from rtf to XML for the ingest into QualiBank, the correction tag was used over spelling mistakes to increase searchability of the essays. Thus the XML version of these essays show both spelling mistakes and corrections.* Other enhancements included the addition of QuDEx compliant metadata to describe speaker attributes, as well as TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) metadata, which marked up speaker tags and paragraph structures.
*Users should note that the downloadable rtf versions were not corrected and thus retain the (often poor) spelling and grammar mistakes.
Electronic and paper documentation supplied with this study has been incorporated into a bookmarked User Guide (PDF format). The conversion programs used were the latest current versions of Adobe Acrobat.