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Getting Data Ready For Analysis

This document outlines the steps for getting data ready for analysis, including checking questionnaires for completeness and usability, editing unsatisfactory responses, developing coding for questions, transcribing coded data, cleaning the data by checking for errors and inconsistencies, and making adjustments to ensure the data can be generalized to the target population. The key steps are checking questionnaires, editing responses, developing a coding scheme, transcribing coded data, cleaning the data, and making adjustments for representativeness.

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Getting Data Ready For Analysis

This document outlines the steps for getting data ready for analysis, including checking questionnaires for completeness and usability, editing unsatisfactory responses, developing coding for questions, transcribing coded data, cleaning the data by checking for errors and inconsistencies, and making adjustments to ensure the data can be generalized to the target population. The key steps are checking questionnaires, editing responses, developing a coding scheme, transcribing coded data, cleaning the data, and making adjustments for representativeness.

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Getting Data Ready for Analysis

Checking Questionnaires
Insure you have all the questionnaires What makes a questionnaire unusable?
Incomplete questionnaires Questionable patterns of response Unusual patterns the Christmas tree example Were skip patterns followed? No variance in response all 3s were checked Questionnaires physically incomplete Questionnaire received after the cut-off date Questionnaire answered by someone who did not qualify to be sample

member

Calculation of response rate


Rate = (Contact (termination + rejection))/Contact

Editing Unsatisfactory Responses


Unsatisfactory responses Poor recording Inconsistencies Difficult interpretation
Words Marks for scale How do you code a mark between a 2 and a three?

Dealing with unsatisfactory responses Recontact respondent Assign a missing value Discard record

Development of Data Coding


Coding
The process of assigning a number to each possible response to a

question Coding questions


A codebook EXCEL Missing data Include control data Example

Post-coding of open ended responses


Review all responses Develop structure key is robust Assign codes Enter data into data file

Transcribing Data
Data Transcription The process of transferring coded data to permanent storage Options Manual data entry Mark sense forms Optical scanning

Data Cleaning
Data Cleaning The process of insuring that all responses fall within allowable ranges Example - gender Out-of-range checks Frequency tables Consistency checks Skip patterns Missing Data Ignore Estimation
Substitute a neutral response Imputation

Data Adjustment
Data adjustment is often necessary to insure

that the sample data can be generalized to the population of interest Check for sample representativeness
Requires inferential statistics

Options Data weighting Variable re-specification


Data recoding Creating dummy variables

Scale transformation
Standardizing variables

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