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This is the main window used to enter data for an interview.
Each question is presented on the Data window, in sequence, one at a time showing:
The question text to be read to the respondent.
Interviewer instructions to provide any additional help with the question.
A response box or list of responses for interviewer to input the answer.
Data may be entered by using your mouse (by clicking on appropriate responses) or by keyboard to enter response numbers.
The F12 key can be used at any time to abort input on the current questionnaire. If the questionnaire is not complete you can save a partial record or make an appointment.
The type of question is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The type of the entry and number of possible responses, or for integer, float and character questions the maximum number of characters allowed to store the answer, is also shown.
The first letter is a Q denoting a question.
The next letter describes the entry type:
S single-coded
M multi-coded
C character
I integer
W weight
T interviewer text
V verbatim
Y date
H time
The number that follows these letters indicates:
The number of responses for single-coded or multi-coded question.
The number of digits allowed for integer question.
The number of digits allowed (including the decimal point and following digit) for float question.
The number of characters allowed for character question.
For example:
"Q S 6" means a Question which is single-coded and has 6 possible responses,
"Q I 2" means a Question which expects an Integer answer using up to 2 data locations (you may enter numbers up to 99).
To indicate non-response to a question:
Using the keyboard press the [*] (asterisk) or [F5] key
Using the mouse, the [Next] button on the screen should be used to leave an entry blank.
The response to the question will then be set to blank or undefined.
IMPORTANT: integer and float questions can be used in statistics, for example mean scores. You should not enter a zero for empty values because this will produce faulty
statistics.
The following selections are set in "Options for data entry":
Errors during input
If you make a mistake when entering data, and you are not sure at which question
the error occurred, use the [Up] button, or the [Move up to previous entry] toolbar
icon, or select [Questions] [Up to previous answered question] to move towards the
start of the current questionnaire, looking at each answer. When you locate your
error, you should re-enter the correct information.
See section Question types for instructions on how to add extra responses to multi-coded
questions (without the need to re-enter those already selected).
TIP: the [Down] button allows you to move down the questionnaire (towards the last
entry).
It is also possible to use the [ESC] key (Escape) to move back to the previous entry
and to press [ESC] when the previous response is highlighted, to delete the response.
IMPORTANT: [ESC] should not generally be used for moving up the questionnaire - it
is only intended to be used when a mistake has been made in the last question reached
so far for this questionnaire.
You can select any entry and re-enter the correct responses for it, and any for the
following entries (if needed). If you are sure that the entries that follow the modified
entry have correct data entered, you can use the [Next] button or press the [Ctrl]+[Down]
keys, to move down to the next question which required a response to be entered.
You may also use your mouse to select the next question which needs data from the
"Entries" box. Questions that already have responses allocated to them are shown
in a bold type in the "Entries" box, so you would select the next entry listed that
is not emboldened.
Note that if the new data you enter satisfies different filter conditions from the
data previously entered, QPSMR will automatically position you at the next entry
which should be now answered as a result of the revised data which you have just
entered.
Moving on to the next question
Using your keyboard simply press the [Enter] key when you have finished with a question.
Using your mouse, click the [Next] button to move down to the next question which
requires a response to be entered.
At the end of the questionnaire
When you have entered the last relevant question in the current questionnaire, the
"End of interview" dialog box is displayed.
To save the data entered for the record (serial number) select [Save questionnaire],
you are then automatically positioned at the "Start of interview" dialog box, ready
for the next questionnaire.
If, however, at the "End of interview" dialog box, you wish to return to the Data
input window for the same serial before saving the data you have entered, select
[Return to questionnaire].
TIP: to return to the first question in the project, at any time during input, Use
[Ctrl]+[Up] arrow key.