Working with User Agent Strings in Stata: The parseuas Command
| Autor: | Lars Kaczmirek, Joss Roßmann, Tobias Gummer |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Statistics and Probability
Computer science Online-Befragung Umfrageforschung web surveys 01 natural sciences Paradata Set (abstract data type) 010104 statistics & probability User agent survey research Pooled data device detection 0101 mathematics Datengewinnung stata Social sciences sociology anthropology lcsh:Statistics lcsh:HA1-4737 Structure (mathematical logic) Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften Information retrieval Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie software Statistics Statistical data paradata Popularity browser data capture user agent string Stata Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis Statistical Methods Computer Methods Respondent ddc:300 online survey Statistics Probability and Uncertainty Web survey Software |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Statistical Software, Vol 92, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2020) Journal of Statistical Software; Vol 92 (2020); 1-16 Journal of Statistical Software |
| ISSN: | 1548-7660 |
| Popis: | With the rising popularity of web surveys and the increasing use of paradata by survey methodologists, assessing information stored in user agent strings becomes inevitable. These data contain meaningful information about the browser, operating system, and device that a survey respondent uses. This article provides an overview of user agent strings, their specific structure and history, how they can be obtained when conducting a web survey, as well as what kind of information can be extracted from the strings. Further, the user written command parseuas is introduced as an efficient means to gather detailed information from user agent strings. The application of parseuas is illustrated by an example that draws on a pooled data set consisting of 29 web surveys. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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