Reproducibility - Preserving Survey Data

Authors

Laurel Krovetz

Lars Vilhuber

Published

June 1, 2025

Here we will demonstrate how to preserve raw survey data and also how to handle confidential data. We will do so with data from a survey that you all will provide responses to. Some of the questions are meant to elicit “confidential” information from you as responses. You should not give your actual confidential information in response to these questions. We will use these questions as way to teach how to preserve data when some data are confidential.

Please fill out this survey:

https://cornell.yul1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8Bbgqex21KyYDFY

Results

gender Frequency Percent
Male 1 50
Female 1 50
education Frequency Percent
Bachelor’s degree 1 50
Master’s degree 1 50

Age

Statistic Value
Count 2.0
Mean 38.0
Median 38.0
Min 24.0
Max 52.0
Sts. Dev. 19.8

Number of tabs open

Statistic Value
Count 2.00
Mean 2.50
Median 2.50
Min 2.00
Max 3.00
Sts. Dev. 0.71

For more information and steps on how to start creating a survey in Qualtrics, how to process and clean the data to remove confidential data, see this presentation.