Quality Profile. Questionnaires, Fieldwork, and Data Preparation

This volume aims to provide an overview of all aspects of the design and implementation of the first wave of the Italian Lives survey. Specifically, the volume is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter briefly describes the survey, its purposes, and its potential. The second chapter illustrates the procedures inspired by the principles of the survey methodology that have been applied to carry out the first wave of data collection. The third chapter analyses the structure and content of the questionnaires. The fourth chapter provides a description of the pre-field, pre-testing, and piloting activities. The fifth chapter explains the data collection procedures. The sixth chapter describes the data management and data cleaning processes. The seventh chapter illustrates the processes of data management and missing imputation. Finally, the eighth chapter sets out the ethical requirements.