Qualitative Archives: Short Descriptions

Verbatim: Qualitative Data Archiving Base

Team: Dr. Dominique LE ROUX, Jean VIDAL (cs)

Contact Persons and Address

Electricité de France - EDF
Research & Development Division
SDC / CLEO / GRETS (Social sciences research group)
1 avenue du Général de Gaulle
92141 CLAMART Cédex FRANCE
Tel.: +1 / (0)47 - 65 52 87
Fax: +1 / (0)47 - 65 57 00

Field of Research

The social science research group deals with two main topics interesting for the company that is sociological forecasting within the company and social and economic environment of the company and more precisely:

Nuclear waste
Home automation
Constructing High voltage lines
Obtaining customers loyalty
Council flats heating systems
Electricity for low income customers
Diffusion of innovation
Hydraulic engineering
Company management
Part-time working in EDF
Comfort in the home
Domestic energy management
Public utilities
Photovoltaic energy
Industrial waste
Tariff-setting ...

Archiving Concept / Special Issues

Resolving ethical problems: definition of an anonymisation policy, secured access to the database ..., redaction of a deontological charter
Transcription of the interviews: redaction of a transcription guide
Constructing the database model (all the archives are systematically digitalized): access to the methodological guide of the qualitative survey, socio-demographical data, interviews of each study

Database / Presentation of the Archive

The database Verbatim is a Lotus Notes database. For the moment it involves:

130 Mb
65 studies from 1994 to 2000
401 interviews

Access Conditions

For the moment, the database is accessible only to EDF researchers.

Last update: 01/30/2003

Volume 1, No. 3 Table of Contents

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