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Text within a questionnaire becomes a statement when it does not fulfill the criteria of becoming any of the other elements (sequence, instruction or condition) and does not provide any context to be part of the actual question literaltext. Statements can be found throughout the questionnaire; at the beginning, middle and end .
Statements can be and they are used for both questions and sequences within a questionnaire. Statements are also known as control constructs like sequences, conditions and question components. Constructs which are concerned with the positioning of items within a questionnaire.
Statements are different from instructions. There are places where an instruction becomes a statement because there is more than one instruction and only one can be input as an instruction, see example from NSHD below. The following are Below are some examples of statements in within different questionnaires from different studies:
ALSPAC:
The following example contains a statement 'If no, go to C2 below'. It also contains a condition 'If yes,' - see here for more on conditions.
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