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The Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires (MCSQ) is the first publicly available corpus of survey questionnaires, comprising survey items from large-scale comparative survey projects that provide cross-national and cross-cultural data to the Social Sciences and Humanities. Namely, the European Social Survey (ESS) (rounds 1 to 9)¹, the European Values Study (EVS) (waves 2, 3, 4 and 5)², the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (waves 7, 8 and COVID questionnaires)³ and, the Wage Indicator (wave 1 and COVID questionnaires)⁴. The questionnaires are available in the English (from Great Britain) source language and their translations into Catalan, Czech, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian, adding to 30 language-country combinations. Additionally, some English questionnaires are available with localizations for Ireland and Malta.

The [MCSQ] is stored and runs through a virtual machine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

It can be accessed via an interface MCSQ Interface. To use the corpus for the first time the registration is needed.

The MCSQ was developed in the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) project. SSHOC has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 project call H2020-INFRAEOSC-04-2018, grant agreement #823782

¹Citation of data: European Social Survey Cumulative File, ESS 1-9 (2020). Data file edition 1.0. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway - Data Archive and distributor of ESS data for ESS ERIC. doi:10.21338/NSD-ESS-CUMULATIVE. Citation of documentation: European Social Survey (2018). ESS 1-9, European Social Survey Cumulative File, Study Description. Bergen: NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data for ESS ERIC. doi:10.21338/NSD-ESS-CUMULATIVE.

²EVS/WVS (2020). European Values Study and World Values Survey: Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2021 Dataset (Joint EVS/WVS). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA7505. Dataset Version 1.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.13095. 

EVS/WVS (2020). European Values Study and World Values Survey: Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2021 Dataset (Joint EVS/WVS). JD Systems Institute & WVSA. Dataset Version 1.0.0, doi:10.14281/18241.2

³Börsch-Supan, A. (2020). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 7. Release version: 7.1.1. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w7.711

Börsch-Supan, A. (2021). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 8. Release version: 1.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w8.100

Börsch-Supan, A. (2021). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 8. COVID-19 Survey 1. Release version: 1.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w8ca.100

⁴WageIndicator Foundation, p/a University of Amsterdam/AIAS-HSI