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Similarly, if the statement appears after the question text then it needs to be input after the question on Archivist, see Example 1.ii

 Example 1.i Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health 2000 (ALSPAC) question A14(a)

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 Example 1.ii Questionnaire: Medical Questionnaire (NCDS) question 2(b)

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Statement ID labels are a way to understand the position of a statement within a questionnaire. In order for statements to have a unique label they need to refer back to either a question or a sequence. 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 2 Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 2000 (ALSPAC) Section A

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Statements can sometimes be mistaken for a sequence Sequence, as in Example 6. However the text ‘The next questions are about your opinions on the environment’ is entered as a statement because it does not fulfil the criteria of a sequence; of having a clear start and end.

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Some questionnaires have groups of statements placed closely together but they are not always entered as one statement. This is mainly the case with questionnaires which begin with names and addreses. In most cases a carriage return is a strong indication to create a seperate statement (Example 8.i). Other times there is a carriage return between two statements but they are still entered as one statement because of a punctuation marker which links them together; for example, a semi-colon (Example 8.ii).

Example 8.i Questionnaire: Teacher's Questionnaire 1959 (NSHD)

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Example 8.ii: Questionnaire Parental Questionnaire 1984 (NCDS)

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