CATCH-EyoU: Processes in Youth's Construction of Active EU Citizenship: Cross-national Pilot Questionnaires

<p>Abstract</p> <p>This final working dataset is a cleaned version of raw data from our pilot study. The cleaning procedure involved (1) removing participants who left the survey on first pages of the questionnaire; (2) removing participants with clearly unreliable responses (i.e. choosing the same response option through the questionnaire); (3) removing participants who indicated age under 14 or over 30.</p> <p>The data set integrates the data resulting from 1390 Catch-EyoU Pilot Questionnaires submitted to adolescents and young adults from Italy, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, UK, and Estonia.</p> <p>The purpose of creating this cross-national data set is to test and compare the quality of items and scales across countries. Given the nature of items and scales a comparable data base does not exist elsewhere.</p> <p>The data can be reused by researchers who want to run more in-depth analyses of the items and scales as well as to a limited extent for substantive analyses.</p> <p>File specifics</p> <p>Technical variables refer to participants&rsquo; unique identification code (ID), country of data collection (Country), cohort (Cohort; younger versus older), age group computed based on participants&rsquo; age (Agegroup_computed), type of assessment (Assess; paper versus online), and questionnaire version (Version; items were ordered differently between versions A and B). Please note that the cohort variable does not strictly refer to participants&rsquo; actual age, but it indicates whether he or she completed the questionnaire intended for adolescents (younger) or young adults (older).</p> <p>Data file is in a proprietary format (SPSS .sav format) but it can be opened through &ldquo;R&rdquo;, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, using different &ldquo;R&rdquo; libraries (such as &ldquo;foreign&rdquo;).</p>