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Statements can be related to either a question or a sequence and they need to labelled and positioned accordingly. See example 1 for when the statement is labelled after the question because it is specific to that question. Note also that it has been input before the question on archivist to match the questionnaire layout.
Example 1 Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 2000 (ALSPAC) question A14
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Archivist view: alspac_00_msdh
Now see example 2 for when the statement is not just specific to a question alone but to an entire section:
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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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Statements can also be mistaken for a sequence like in example 5 but it is entered as a statement because it does not fulfill the criteria of statement of there being a clear start and end.
Example 5 Questionnaire: Adult Self completion 2008 (US) s_q20 and s_q20_i
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view us1_asc
Some statements have text that is contexually important information which is then needs to be repeated within the question such as in Example 6:
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