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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 question text. Statements can be found throughout the questionnaire; at the beginning, middle and end and they are used for both questions and sequences. Statements are control constructs which are concerned with the positioning of items within a questionnaire.
Statements need to refer back to a question or a sequence to provide them with unique labels. This helps to understand their position within the questionnaire. Statements are labelled with the prefix ‘s_intro_…’. If there is a statement connected to a section then it always needs to be numbered even if there is only one, see second example from ALSPAC above. For more on labelling statements please see constructing label (IDs) for more information. Statements are positional and are independent of questionnairequestions. Their position is dependent upon where the statement text appears in the questionnaire for example if it appears before a question then it needs to be input before the question on Archivist and if the statement text is after a question in the questionnaire then it needs to be input after the question.
Statements can be related , see Example 1.
Statement labels are also used to understand their position within the questionnaire. In order for statements to have a unique label they need to refer back 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. Statements are labelled with the prefix ‘s_intro_…’. If there is a statement connected to an entire section within a questionnaire then it always needs to be numbered; even if there is only one. For more on labelling statements please see constructing label (IDs) for more information.
Example 1 Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 2000 (ALSPAC) question A14
Questionnaire layout:
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 and is labelled and positioned accordingly in Archivist:
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. 
Some questionnaires have a lot text at the beginning of a questionnaire explaining to the interviewee how to complete it, as shown in example Example 3. In Archivist you will see that five seperate statements have been entered. This is because , in the case where when you have a series of statements , they are seperated entered seperately in Archivist where a carriage return is used in the questionnaire layout.
Example 3: Questionnaire: Final Interview with Mother 1961 (NSHD) s_intro_vi to s_intro_x
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view nshd_61_iwm:
Some questions contain text which can be split into both statements and question text.
Example 4 Questionnaire: Food and Things 2004 (ALSPAC) Section B
This is an example consisting of question text and statements. As Where the text is continuous, deciding which parts are included in the question text and which parts are included in the statement can be tricky, see Example 4 questionnaire layout. As the first paragraph contains text regarding what information the interviewer would like from the interviewee it is input as the question text. Whereas However as the second paragraph does not provide such information and it also does not have anything that contain text which the first paragraph is contextually dependent on and , it is therefore entered as a statement. As Note also that as the question text cannot be seperate or split from their response domain note that , the statement will therefore appear after the whole question in the Archivist view and not just after the question 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.
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view alspac_04_fat:
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 sequence; of having 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 repeated within the question such as in Example 6:
Example 6 Questionnaire: Adult Self completion 2008 (US)
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist layout us1_ysc
. This example shows a simple sentence before a question explaining what the next questions are about. The important context of ‘you and your family’ is repeated in the question.
Example 6 Questionnaire: Adult Self completion 2008 (US)
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist layout us1_ysc
Finally some questions contain more than instruction which is not possible to input into Archivist. Therefore only one instruction is input and the remaining are entered as statements as shown in example 7:
Example 7: University Questionnaire 1964 (US) question 47_i-xii
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view nshd_64_cmu
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
