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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 3 below. For more on labelling statements please see constructing label Constructing Label (IDs) for more information.
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Some statements have text that is contextually important information which is then repeated within the question such as in Example 4. 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, so the statement does not need to be included as part of the question text.
Example 4 Questionnaire: Adult Self completion 2008 (USUSoc)
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist layout (us1_ysc):
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Some questions contain text which can be split into both statements and question text. 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 6 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 separate or split from its 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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Example 7 Adult self-completion 2008 (Usoc)
Questionnaire layout:
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Finally, some questions contain more than one instruction which is not possible to input enter into Archivist. Therefore, only one instruction is input entered and the remaining ones are entered as statements as shown in Example 8. The decision of choosing which text is entered as a statement and which as an instruction is usually left at the inputterenterer's discretion. This is because the way instructions are used within questionnaires can vary greatly and therefore it is difficult to apply a consistent generic method. Some salient features of text input as instructions are that the text is often shorter, practically-orientated (in answering the question), and positioned closer to the response domain. See Interviewer Instructions for more on instructions.
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