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Working with User Agent Strings in Stata: The parseuas Command
- Source :
- 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
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Foundation for Open Access Statistics, 2020.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15487660
- Volume :
- 92
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Statistical Software
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a21a8015c0898494884a020f13dca7d9