Study Number 6479 - Oral History of Cultural Consumption in Italy, 1936-1954

DATA PROCESSING NOTES

Data Archive Processing Standards

The data were 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. Firstly, checks were made that the number of cases and variables matched the depositor's records. Secondly, logical checks were performed on a sample of�30 + 10% of the remaining nominal (categorical) variables to ensure they had�values within the range defined (either by value labels or in the depositor's documentation). Thirdly, any data or documentation that breached confidentiality rules were altered or suppressed to preserve anonymity.

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

Data and documentation problems

None encountered.

Useful Notes
Users should note that at present, there is no ESRC End of Award report available for this study, but the main findings are presented in: Forgacs, D. and Gundle, S. (2008) Mass culture and Italian society from fascism to the Cold War, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN: 0253219485.

Users should note that the interviews are all in Italian, with no English translation available. The original paper transcripts have been scanned and PDF files created. Some variation in quality is unavoidable within the scanning process. There are no transcripts available for interviews 46 and 47, and several files contain combined transcripts, including numbers 11-12, 33-34, 39-40, 48-49, 50-51, 58-59, 71-72, 76-77, 82-84, 85-86, 99-100, 108-109 and 113-114.

Conversion of documentation formats

Electronic and paper documentation supplied with this study is usually 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�of the electronic documentation cannot be usefully converted to PDF (e.g. MS Excel files with wide worksheets) and this is supplied in�a more appropriate format. All User Guides are fully bookmarked.