The Perceived Value of Acquiring Data Seals of Approval Study Dataset and Associated Files

Abstract

This package contains the data and associated analyses for a study which examined the benefits of acquiring Data Seals of Approval (DSAs) from the point of view of those who have them. This package includes data from a series of 15 semi-structured interviews with representatives from 16 different organizations in which participants described the benefits of having DSAs in their own words. The four files in this package include: 1) the coded interview transcripts and description of codes (i.e., codebook) in NVivo for Mac Version 11.3.2 (1888) file format (e.g., .nvpx), 2) the raw dataset that lists the frequency with which each benefit was mentioned by DSA board members and non-DSA board members in IBM SPSS Statistics 24 file format (e.g., .spv), and 3) the processed/analysed data from the Mann-Whitney U tests in two different file formats (e.g., .doc and .spv).