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Some questionnaires have long continuous text with breaks at the beginning of a questionnaire explaining to the interviewee how to complete it, as shown in Example 3. In the Archivist view below you will see that five seperate separate statements have been entered. This is because when you have a series of statements they are entered seperately separately in where a carriage return is used in the questionnaire layout.
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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. However as the second paragraph does not provide such information and it also does not contain text which the first paragraph is contextually dependent on, it is therefore entered as a statement. Note also that as the question text cannot be seperate separate or split from their response domain, the statement will therefore appear after the question in the Archivist view and not just after the question text as shown in the questionnaire layout.
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Statements can also be mistaken for a sequence like , as in example Example 5 but . But it is entered as a statement because it does not fulfill the criteria of a sequence; of having a clear start and end.
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Statements are used for additional instructions
Finally, some questions contain more than one instruction which is not possible to input into Archivist. Therefore only one instruction is input and the remaining ones are entered as statements as shown in example Example 7:.
Example 7 Questionnaire: Home and All That 1986 (BCS) question G5
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