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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 constructs (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 that are independent of questions and are control constructs. Conrol Control constructs are concerned with their positioning within the in a questionnaire. The statements statement's position is dependent upon where the 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, see Example 1.
Example 1 Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 2000 (ALSPAC) question A14
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view alspac_00_msdh:
Statement labels are also used a way to understand their the position of a statement within the a questionnaire. In order for statements to have a unique label they need to refer back to either a question or a sequence. Statements are labelled with the prefix ‘s_intro_…’. If there is a statement connected to an entire section within a questionnaire then it needs to be labelled after the section and it always needs to be numbered; even if there is only one, see Example 2 below. 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
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