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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 text. Statements can be found throughout the questionnaire; at the beginning, middle and end and they are used for both questions and sequences within a questionnaire. Statements are also known as control constructs which are concerned with the positioning of items within a questionnaire. Below are some examples of statements within different questionnaires:
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This is an example of a question which consists of question text as well as a statement. As the text is continuous, deciciding deciding which parts are included in the question text and which parts are included in the statement can be . The As the first paragraph contains text regarding what information the interviewer would like from the interviewee and hence it is input as the question text. Whereas the second paragraph does not provide such information and it does not have anything that the first paragraph is contextually dependent on
Note also that when constructing the id label for this statement, it's reference is the sequence 'Section B:...' and therefore the label should be entered as the following 's_SectionB_i'. It has also been numbered as all statements that are referenced back to a sequence need to be numbered even if there is only one statement.
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