Basic search
Basic keyword search is provided in the search bar at the top of the front page.
Elasticsearch applies autocompletion in the search. For example, a search for discrimin
will give results like “discrimination”, “discriminations”, “discriminatory”. Search terms are highlighted in the results list.
When you enter two or more search terms (e.g., school children), the default logic is OR. This means results may contain any of the search terms, but datasets where both “school” and “children” appear in the documentation are prioritized at the top of the results list.
The number of results is presented in the top left, below the search bar, followed by the search results. Search terms are highlighted in the results list if they occur in the title or abstract. There is no highlighting in the detailed study view. Clicking on ‘Read more’ in the list opens the full abstract for the study. You can hide the abstract and keywords in the results using the ‘Show abstract’ and ‘Show keywords’ toggle buttons.
Results can be sorted by relevance, title (A-Z or Z-A), the date of data collection (oldest or newest) or the publication date of the dataset description (newest). Note: if the study metadata does not contain the collection or publication date in a standardised format, these studies come up last and are not sorted by date. Users can also change the number of results displayed on a page. The search language options are provided in a dropdown menu next to the search box. If you want to browse study descriptions in German, for instance, choose German as the language. Note: some service providers provide study descriptions only in English, regardless of country, or both in English and in the local language. Therefore, it is always a good idea to do a search in English as well as in the local language.
The ‘Reset’ button next to the search bar clears only the text in the search. It does not clear any existing filters applied in the left column, see Filtered Search.