The present working paper, produced in the context of Work Package 2 (WP2) “Model for an enforcement data collection system and associated pilots”, describes the procedure used for transferring and storing the data collected from six European countries during the pilot study of WP2, into an organized data file. Data was collected according to a detailed questionnaire, and was originally saved in free text format in the questionnaire file of each country. For the purpose of collecting together and storing of the data, a spreadsheet file (MSExcel) was used, because at present conditions it was considered as the most suitable and flexible tool which allows the storage of a variety of type of answers for the same question, giving the ability to the user to view simultaneously any question together with all the relevant available answers, or to view separately all data collected by any one country. This file will be used as customized and flexible tool in the next steps of this task for the analysis and evaluation of the collected data. Therefore changes in the content and format of the collected data were deliberately avoided, thus eliminating the limits of “streamlining data into common predefined formats”. The developed data organizing and storing tool is not intended and should not be considered as a model for the European data collection system on TLE. (Author/publisher) For the project website, and other reports, see http://www.vtt.fi/sites/pepper/
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