The survey I work on has a lot of online documentation and we often get positive feedback on it from users, because we explain in detail how the data was collected, how cases were sampled, response rates, and how weights are created. I have a a few other favorite surveys on this dimension. What surveys do you like for the extensiveness and clarity of their public documentation?
Okay, I can see how this question was kind of vague, but I even got more posts on my question about preferences for coding mutli-category variables. And that's prety research-nerder if I do say so myself.
I guess I should've shared more about the survey I work on (CHIS). Here's a link to our methodology page with all sorts of goodies. For the most in-depth methodology, go to "methodology reports".
http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/design/Pages/overview.aspx
One of the things we've been talking about lately is moving from being PDF-based to HTML based with links and cross-references, etc. Here are a few other surveys or data warehouses/archives whose data documentation I really like.
My favorite is probably ICPSR because they've linked question wording to frequencies you can run online.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/
http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm
http://www.socialexplorer.com/
http://dataarchives.ss.ucla.edu/
http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/design/Pages/overview.aspx
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/
http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm
http://www.socialexplorer.com/
http://dataarchives.ss.ucla.edu/
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