GSU Library Research Guides: *RESEARCH DATA SERVICES (RDS) @ Georgia State University Library: TUTORIALs ~ Data Collection ~ Survey Design (Qualtrics) & Data Discovery (ICPSR)

Intro to Qualtrics Survey Builder

Participants will learn to create surveys using Qualtrics, a user-friendly, web-based software used for creating and distributing surveys and collecting data.

Topics:

Using the Qualtrics Survey Builder to create data collection instruments
Exploring different question types and advanced survey features, like skip logic
Personalizing the look and feel of surveys
Distributing surveys
Examining results and exporting data for analysis

Prerequisites: Login to Qualtrics using your GSU CampusID and Password to create a Qualtrics account.

ICPSR

ICPSR for Finding Secondary Datasets

TUTORIALS | ONLINE GUIDE

This tutorial gives an introduction/overview of ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research). See also this hands-on tutorial that walk you through using ICPSR.

Topics:

Create and login with a MyData Account to be able to download ICPSR datasets from both on and off campus.
Use key search and browse features to drill down to datasets appropriate for your research or teaching purposes.
Use key parts of an ICPSR dataset record to identify and download datasets.
Understand the different access options to ICPSR datasets (public use v. restricted use).

Prerequisites: None.