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Example 2 Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 2000 (ALSPAC) Section A
Archivist view: alspac_00_msdh:
The statement in example 2 is labelled not after the question but the section and this is because of the indication of the statement text. It has positioned not before but after the section heading as this is how it appears in the questionnaire layout.
Example 3: Questionnaire: , question (NSHD)
This example contains instructions for the questionnaire however the text is still entered as multiple statements. The text within this example is not relevant as question text, an instruction or a condition and therefore remains as statements.
Some questionnaires have a lot text at the beginning of a questionnaire explaining to the interviewee how to complete it as shown in example 3. In Archivist you will see that five seperate statements have been entered. This is because, in the case where you have a series of statements, they are seperated where a carriage return is used.
Example 3: Questionnaire: Final Interview with Mother 1961 (NSHD) s_intro_vi to s_intro_x
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view nshd_61_iwm:
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The text highlighted in this example 'HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT COUGHS AND COLDS' may be mistaken for a sequence however it is actually a statement. This is because it does not satisfy the requirements of a sequence in having an clear start and end. See here for more on sequences .
- ALSPAC:
This is an example of a question which consists of question text as well as a statementFood and Things 2004 (ALSPAC) Section B
This is an example consisting of question text and statements. As the text is continuous, deciding which parts are included in the question text and which parts are included in the statement can be tricky. As the first paragraph contains text regarding what information the interviewer would like from the interviewee 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 and is therefore entered as a statement. As question text cannot be seperate or split from their response domain note that the statement will appear after the whole question and not just after the text as shown in the questionnaire layout.
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 (_i) 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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This could
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view alspac_04_fat:
Statements sometimes carry contexually relevant text and therefore this text needs to be repeated in all of the questions following it which are related such as in example 5
Statements can also be mistaken for a sequence like the in example above 5 but it is entered as a statement because there is no it does not fulfill the criteria of statement of there being a clear start or end for it to be a sequence.
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Example 5 Questionnaire: Adult Self completion 2008 (US)
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view us1_asc
This example is of a question with more than one instruction. Each question is allowed only on instruction and therefore any other text that appears as an instruction to the question needs to be entered as part of another element (statement) or the question text. In this case, the first
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