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The principles of questionnaire documentation are as follows:

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Documentation must make sense

Principle 0 must be maintained at all times. Ensuring the documentation makes sense should be the basis for all decisions made based on the principles below. Note that this does not refer to correcting mistakes in the questionnaire, but choosing the best method in which the questionnaire is documented. For example, when there are two options for condition text, the text which refers to the true branch is used, and the alternative is usually added as a statement. However, in cases were the second statement only contains the direction (with or without an arrow) it does not have any meaning. In example 1 below,  'Go to Section D on page 30' would be ignored, because it is not clear which answer it refers to without the arrow, and does not make sense on its own.

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