so now let's try a search
you can search the system by keywords
interview dates organizations
researchers pis topics
or countries the keyword
search will search the text of the
question it will
also search the response categories
this is particularly important for
open-ended questions
a question like what is the most
important
problem facing the country will be
brought back by a search
on the economy if economy is one of the
responses that that question received
from respondents
keywords also search the title at the
study level
and you'll see those studies that don't
have questions
in the question bank the key keyword
search will also search the abstracts on
datasets
the legacy archive number and the
current archive number
so it's a pretty powerful search
however topics also have advantages
topics can be used to ensure that you
get
all the results that you're looking for
in a particular area
for example if you put in keyword
immigration
you won't pull back questions about
refugees
but in topic immigration you will our
topic list is quite long
and can be viewed here
this page also gives you the definitions
of topics
using topics also allows you to use
boolean operators
so this can be a very effective search
strategy
if you put in for example health
and government
you will get questions about the role of
government at health care
and you won't get questions about for
example
if a respondent is a smoker
or whether people are
concerned about someone in their family
getting cancer
keywords however are probably where most
people start
so let's give this a shot so
i'm going to look for the word immigrant
and i'm going to also look for the word
refugee
because i would be interested in seeing
questions that use either of those terms
this search will also bring back normal
english variants of these words like
plurals
and if you want to get a specific term
you can put your
search in quotes and that will make sure
that it doesn't give those variations
so we get our questions that's a good
number of questions
we get our studies and we may decide
that we want to
narrow the results further on the left
hand side
there are a number of possible filters
the most used is probably the data set
filter if you click downloadable data
sets you will find
those studies that have data sets you
can download
you could also look at particular
formats of data sets
you can narrow by decades and it can be
very helpful to
cast your eye over the distribution
of questions by decade you can narrow
the interview dates
you can narrow the countries these
filters are always
narrowing your search not expanding it
so the filters work with an
and boolean that is to say if you click
both the united kingdom and germany
you're going to find only those studies
that were conducted in both the united
kingdom
and germany
if you want to remove a filter i want to
see those us questions
i can click up here and take that filter
off
if i move down here i can narrow by
topics
and again you can choose multiple topics
to really triangulate
the particular subject of questions
and again more topics are available up
here
if you want to go back to the questions
you can always hit
the question tab and review those
results
if you want to know more about searching
including information on special
characters archive numbers or
other search possibilities you can use
the how to search
button at the top to bring up all the
details
you
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