The Questionnaire Design and Documentation Tool (QDDT) - a DDI based tool for assisting questionnaire design teams in their work

Successful large-scale international survey projects often put lots of effort into the questionnaire design and development process. The QDDT has been developed to assist the questionnaire development process by allowing questionnaire design teams to reuse metadata elements at different levels, to maintain them, to publish them and to track the development of metadata elements over time. The tool is developed and tested as part of the EU funded DASISH and SERISS projects.

The first version of this DDI based tool has just been released, and will be used in the questionnaire design process of the European Social Survey in round 10. This presentation focuses on how the workflow of questionnaire designers is supported by the DDI based design of the tool.