Search Questions and Variables
Search among questions and variables connected to data in the SND research data catalogue. The hits will show the exact question, as posed in the survey, and in which datasets that exact question has been used. If you click the data description in the catalogue, you will usually be able to find the entire survey. If you search for a variable, you will receive information about which data that contain the particular variable.
The questions and variables bank primarily contains questions and variables in data from the social sciences, medicine, and health sciences up to the year 2016. The service is under development and at present there is no information for later data.
Search in SND’s collection by specifying a search words. It is possible to search in all metadata fields.
- A search for election data is equivalent to election + data.
- A search for election | data will give results matching election OR data.
- Add a + in front of words and phrases that must occur. +newspaper read means the text must include newspaper and may include read.
- Add a - in front of words and phrases that should not occur in the text.
- Use a * like news* to specify unknown number of characters after the word.
- If you want to search for a phrase, use quotes: "election manifestos".
Advanced search options
- You can also do a proximity search. "read newspaper"~10 means that the words "read" and "newspaper" must occur within 10 words of each other.
- For a fuzzy search (words similar to the search term), add ~N at the end, as in newspaper~5 where N signifies edit distance (fuzzines).
Leading wildcard characters (*,?, and ~) as well as leading periods is not supported and will be ignored.
