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The first thing you need for a project is to define the questionnaire. This means creating all the questions and other entries needed to start working with data. A project will contain various types of entry:
•Question entries contain the questions to be asked
•Filter entries define a subset of the questionnaires and are used for routing
•Variable entries are like questions but they are not asked. The answers are constructed from earlier questions
•Program entries are used for randomizing the order in which questions are asked
Some skeleton project files can be downloaded from netmr-download.scot/home/downloads. These should be modified and used for new projects.
Once you have opened a project, or created a new one, the entry list on the Main window will show all the entries in the project.
The starting point for a project will be one of the following:
No data has been collected and all you have is the draft questionnaire.
You could finish designing the questionnaire by adding and moving questions until you are happy with the finished product or you may be working with a final draft of the questionnaire. Either way, you will need to define the questionnaire.
If you need to deliver the data to match a particular layout then you will need to match data locations to the questionnaire (with data locations) or a data map.
For CAPI and paper projects the data should normally be collected as CSV and only converted to ASC when necessary.
For CATI projects the data sample data must be ASC.
If the data has already been entered then the project will need to be set up to access the data, see Data supplied.
If the data is supplied as a raw data file with fixed data locations then it will be important to match data locations when creating the project.
Before inserting entries into the new project you should set and check all the settings that affect the whole project in project global settings.