Архивы социальных данных: цели существования, формы работы, проблемы создания

Abstract

The author discusses the problems of forming social data archives and the questions connected with the necessity of researchers’ special attention to the process of the empirical data documentation. The necessity of developing an integrated software which could support all the stages of empirical social research is emphasized. The experience of social data archive formation and functioning amassed throughout the world is analyzed. The author also discusses the work done at the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in forming a sociological archive and data bank for social studies.