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contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: As the variable is one of the most relevant entities to enhance data
  reuse in the Social Sciences, we provide a framework design to better semantics
  the variables' relations descriptions. These explicit relations between variables
  enable comparability and facilitate harmonization across waves. We provide a brief
  textual identification of the relation type, supported by a controlled vocabulary
  (CV) and an extended description of the relationship. These relations within variables
  include but are not limited to different versions, derived formats in new waves,
  new labels and name wording, and alternative response schema through questionnaires
  and surveys. For instance, a given variable label is changed from one wave to another,
  even though its concept remains the same. Their values also are subject to change,
  such as new cardinalities settings, their categorization, or response scheme and
  scale measurement. They change based on different conditions, e.g., values are updated
  by any constraints or modified to comply with the study evolution requirements or
  a new sociological approach. In the Social Sciences, Economics, and Behaviour Sciences,
  which investigate, for instance, the social structure of the population, political
  attitudes of voters and candidates, opinions on family, work, religion, politics
  and society or competencies of adults, those topics are highly subject to change
  to fit the empirical reality in a constantly changing world. Thus, we propose widening
  relations descriptions for Social Sciences variables within datasets beginning from
  the BasedOnObjectType DDI as a first approach.
example: '01'
example_extras: []
homepage: https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/Variables-Relations
keywords: []
license: CC-BY-4.0
mappings: {}
name: Variables relations for Social Sciences research data
namespace_in_lui: false
owners:
- name: GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
  ror: 018afyw53
preferred_prefix: gesis.variables-relations
prefix: gesis.variables-relations
providers: []
publications: []
synonyms: []
uri_format: https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/Variables-Relations?lang=en#code_$1
version: 1.0.0
