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39.7%

27.0%

11.1% 11.1%

1.6%

Undergraduatestudent

Doctoralstudent /

research orteachingassistant

Researcher /professor

Project leader Head ofinstitution

Intern

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Research among Social Science

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• SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2015

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Research among Social Science

researchers • SEEDS PROJECT

• SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2015

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• SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2015

• 336 SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCHERS

• 83 SURVEYS ( 2 SIMILAR, 19 INCOMPLETE)

• 63 PARTICIPANTS

• 19% RESPONCE PERCENTAGE

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With what type of institution are you

currently principally affiliated? N=63

68.3%

30.2%

1.6%

Higher education institution NGO/Think tank Other

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Do you work in public, private or

nongovernmental sector? N=63

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28.6%

Public sector Private sector Nongovermental sector

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What is your principal research

discipline? N=63

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3.2%

27.0%

1.6%

3.2%

7.9%

19.0%

1.6%

4.8%

1.6%

9.5%

1.6%

Economics

Journalism

Political science

Library and information sciences

Psychology

Sociology

Law

Public administation

History

Antropology

Linguistic

Humanistic science

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In the context of your research activity within the past 5 years, did you

produce or help to produce any research data? This could be

quantitative and/or qualitative data. N=63

Yes71%

No29%

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Enter the number of datasets that you have

produced or helped to produce during the past

5 years. N=42

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11.9%

7.1%

7.1%

14.3%

16.7%

16.7%

16.7%

1

2

3

4

5

6-10

11-20

21+

In which year was the fieldwork (or data

collection phase) completed? N=44

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13.6%

2.3%

31.8%

50.0%

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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Which data collection method was applied in this research? (e.g.

online questionnaire, structured interview, focus groups, experiment,

...) N=45

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35.6% 37.8%

2.2%

8.9%

structuredinterview

focus groups onlinequestionnaire

experiment other

Scope of raw data - from 12 to

1500 respondents and few thousands of documents

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How was this research financed? N=43

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4.7%

60.5%

2.3%

20.9%

9.3%

National science funding bodies

Public funding from other sources

International funding/project

Private sector

Own funding (institution)

Own funding (researcher)

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Apart from you, how many researchers were involved in this

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Apart from you, how many researchers were involved in this research project?

Frequency Percent

0 3 6.7

1-3 17 37.8

4-5 15 33.3

6-10 7 15.6

11+ 3 6.7Total 45 100,0

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After you completed your last research project, did you or your

research team members keep/retain the data? N=45

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4.4%

Yes

No

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After you completed your last research project, did you or your

research team members keep/retain the data? N=43

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53.5%

55.8%

14.0%

Raw data

Cleaned data (coded, anonymised, ..)

Data prepared for analysis (withtransformations, created indexes,

recoded)

Well documented with metadata

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Have you used any special documentation/metadata standard for

description of your research data?

Have you used any special documentation/metadata standard for

description of your research data?

DDI 1

DC 0

ISO 11179 0

Internal/institutional documentation standard

4

Don't know 1

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Where is the data from your last project

kept? N=43

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27.9%

32.6%

4.7%

18.6%

2.3%

2.3%

2.3%

On my computer

On my colleague's…

Several copies

Server at my local…

Data archive/repository

Don't know

Dropbox

On special discs

20.9%

51.2%

20.9%

23.3%

14.0%

2.3%

2.3%

Just the project…

Research team…

Members of my…

Broader scientific…

Open access

Don't know

Other ppl on request

Who may be granted access to the data from your last project for

research use? N=43

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In your opinion, what would be the ideal level of access to this

research data? N=45

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20.0%

8.9%

28.9%

31.1%

2.2%

Just the project leader

Research team members

Members of my institution

Broader scientific community

The data should be publicly available(open access)

Don't know

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If you knew that your data would be preserved for the long-term in a

secure environment, and shared only with accredited researchers,

would you be willing to provide your data to a social science data

archive? N=37

48.6%

20.6%

9.5%

Yes, certainly

Yes, probably

Not sure

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With respect to your own

discipline, how important is

the sharing of research

data? N=63

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20.6%

1.6%

Very important

Somewhatimportant

Not very important

17.8%

15.6%

35.6%

31.1%

Nobody outside my team had ever used research data thatI/we have produced

Yes, I know of an occassion when my/our data was used, butthis was more than a year ago

Yes, I know that my/our research data was used for secondaryanaylsis recently, the most recent occasion being within th

I am not sure if anybody used my/our data for secondaryanalysis

Do you know if any other

researcher outside your own

team had used for secondary

analysis any of the research

data that you produced? N=45

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In general, what are the barriers to conducting secondary analysis in

your country? N=63

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31.7%

42.9%

34.9%

17.5%

7.9%

1.6%

Not enough relevant data exist

Data exist but are not accessible

Data exist but are poorly documented andunusable

Researchers are not trained well enoughin secondary analysis

It is not part of the research culture

Don't know

No unique data base

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There are different ways to obtain research data produced by others.

Please indicate all the sources that you ever used successfully to

obtain such data. N=34

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70.6%

26.5%

41.2%

38.2%

52.9%

Your own research unit

Network of colleagues outside of yourresearch unit

Your own institution

Data archives from other countries

National Statistical Office

Websites of projects

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What statistical software do

you commonly use for your

quantitative analyses? N=38

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5.3%

7.9%

65.8%

Excel

R

Stata

SPSS / PASW

4.3%2.1%

80.9%2.1%6.4%

2.1%2.1%

Nvivo

CAT

No software

MAXQDA

QDA Miner

RQDA

AHP

What software do you

commonly use for your

qualitative analyses? N=47

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[research data produced in

your country]

65.1%

31.7%

3.2%

Yes, considerably

Yes, moderately

No, not very much

82.5%

15.9%

1.6%

Yes, considerably

Yes, moderately

No, not very much

[international research data]

Would your scientific work benefit if you had better access to N=63

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In your opinion, what is the prevalent attitude with respect to sharing

one's own research data among... N=63

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41.3%

20.6%

1.6%4.8%

55.6%

33.3%

4.8%1.6%

4.8%

76.2%

19.0%

1.6% 1.6% 1.6%

81.0%

15.9%

1.6% 0.0% 1.6%

Very willing Somewhat willing Not very willing Not willing at all Can't assess

coleagues from your field of science coleagues from your institution

your research team members you personally

There exist lack of trust among researchers, question of academic propriety is asked, ethics of research could be jeopardize, and concern is shown that data could be abused

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Which type of data do you

use in your teaching? to

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65.9%

79.5%

4.5%

6.8%

Data collected by studentsthrough the courseworkstion

Data from past projects in whichyou have participated

Publicly available data anddatasets

Artificially generated data

Other

56.3%

29.2%

14.6%

Yes, considerably

Yes, moderately

No, not very much

Would your teaching benefit if

you had greater access to more

national or international data?

N=48

76.2% of respondents are having teaching responsibilities

In the context of their teaching, 77.1% analyze or discuss research data regularly or sometimes (N=48)

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In your view, how useful could be an institution that specializes in data

archiving in your country? N=64

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20.6%

3.2%

Very important

Somewhat important

Not very important

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Comments from respondents

1• Arhaving and authorazing of data would improve quality of research and better treatment of

data and citation. Data has to be smehow unified.

2• We have to respect the differencies between natural and social science, so that social science will not

be „over qunatified“.

3• We need synhonized and unified system of official statistics. We need to raise awerness of buisness

sector of the importance of resreach. We need to raise awerness of both sectors of cooperation, transparenccy, sharing data.

4• Better acess to international databases is needed.

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1

• Anketa je poredjenje istraživanjima u onim društvenim naukama koje proizvode izvore,( sociologija, Političke nauke) MADA bi BILO svrsishodnije da je posvećena fundamentalnim društvenim naukama, odnosno onima koje imaju definisan istraživački metod ŠTO IH čini NAUkom.

• Moralo bi da se insistira na upucivanju u razlike koje se odnose na metodologiju naucno-istrazivackog rada izmedju drustvenih i prirodnih naukama. U tom smislu, sada u CG preovladava, manje svjesno i artikulisano, oponasanje onoga sto na Zapadu vidimo kao mainstream (ortodoksni) pristup, a sto znaci primjenu metodologija koje su svojstvene prirodnim naukama u istrazivanjima iz oblasti drustvenih nauka (koja pojava se zove scijentizam, cega takodje nismo svjseni u dovoljnoj mjeri). Sto se tice nacionlane infrastruktur, nisam previse upucena, ali cini mi se da bi trebalo obezbijediti kompatibilnost sa bazama koje se koriste u zemljama koje imaju visok nivo razvijenosti istrazivanja u oblasti drustvenih nauka.

2

• U radu naučno istraživačke zajednice u Crnoj Gori postoji mnogo nedostataka. Ključni nedostatici su nepoznavanje savremenih istraživačkih metoda, loše kvalitativne analize koje se zasnivaju samo naiznošenju statističkih podataka bez prave analize o tome šta ti podaci pokazuju. Kada su kvantitativne analize u pitanju često su u suprotnosti za rezultatima intervjua sa ispitanicima i više se prepoznaje stavistraživača nego ispitanika,što je, može se slobodno reći najčešće "sindrom" stručnjaka iz akademske zajednice. Poseban problem predstavljaju istraživanja u kojoj su naručioci vlada ili međunarodne agencijekoje su tu da bi "pomogli vladi u reformskim procesima", pa se informacije dobijene istraživanjem "filtriraju" i usklađuju sa potrebama naručioca. U NVO sektoru radi se veliki broj istraživanja koja često ne sadrže relevantne podatke, niti izvore podataka. Generalno, veliki je broj onih koji ne poznaju osnovne istraćivačke metode i tehnike, pa ova istraživanja ćesto budu neupotrebljiva. Veliki broj podatakadobijene raznim istraživanjem bili bi dragocjeni za arhive podataka u kojima bi uvid trebala imati istračivačka zajednica a ne opša javnost, upravo zbog opasnosti, tj. situacija sa kojima se sretamo gdje se podaci prenesu javnosti na potpuno pogrešan način i često naprave štetu upravo onim zajednicama čiji smo pološaj htjeli poboljšati.

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• Za naučno-istraživački rad nužno je imati relevantne podatk, kvantitativne ili kvalitativne, kako bi i sama istraživanja bila uspješna. Stoga je neopphodno obezbjediti pristup bazama podataka koje bi pomogleistraživačima i naučnicima da napreduju u svojoj oblasti i da svojim istraživanjima doprinesu boljoj zajednici, razvoju društva i svijesti o značaju obrazovanja i nauke. Arhiva, koja bi bila dostupna svimistraživačima, više je nego dobrodošla u zemlji u kojoj nemamo pristup skoro nijednoj većoj međunarodnoj bazi i gdje postoji značajn problem sa prikupljanjem informacija i njihovim uvjerljivim prikazivanjemjavnosti, a posebno upotrebom u cilju izgradnje zdravog društva.

• Naučno istraživačka zajednica kao takva ne postoji. Potrebno je institucionalno riješiti ovo pitanje. Takođe, za društvene nauke vrlo važno bi bilo otvaranje međunarodnih baza podataka, jer ono čemu mi u CG imamo pristup je toliko šturo da svaki naš rad predstavlja uspijeh

4

• Podaci bi morali biti isti, bez obzira koja institucija emituje parametar, što je kod nas često kontradiktorno.

• Potrebna je posebna obuka onih koji se bave istrazivackom djelatnoscu o cuvanju, koriscenju i povjerljivoscu sekunadarnih podataka

• Potrebno raditi na kreiranju jedinstvenog sinhroniozovanog i harmonizovanog sistema zvanične statistike.

• Veoma je vazno jasno objasniti svrhu arhiva. Posebnu paznju obratiti na cuvanje podataka i obezbijediti adekvatnu zastitu istih.

5• razvoj svjesti poslovne zajednice o znacaju istrazivanja, razmjene podataka i povezivanje poslovne i naucne zajednice u kontekstu boljeg pristupa podacima, razmjene rezultata istrazivanja itd, veca

transparentnost podataka,

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