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- Has any text which includes key contextual information been concatenated to the question literal? E.g., text from a statement or from another question literal.
- Check for text in question literals that can be deleted from the question and added as a statement before the question - there doesn't need to be a hard return or line break to split it off. For example, a statement such as "The next set of questions are about your health", which applies to a set of questions rather than just one. The decision on whether or not to split the text off should be obvious. If it isn't, this suggests it should not be split off and so it should be kept in the question literal.
- Watch for month and year questions that need text, and sometimes instructions, from month question concatenated onto the year question (the order of the questions could be Year and then Month, and the text needs to be concatenated to month question).
- Have all the instructions been grouped together if they appear above and below the question literal in the questionnaire?
- Instructions vs statements vs question text is correct.
- Check for text in question literals that can be deleted from question and added as a statement before the question.
- There may be instruction text that should be in the literal and vice versa.
- If text is added to a question literal in order for it to make sense, make sure square brackets been used (e.g., “what is your [child number] child’s date of birth?”, for a question which is included in a loop which asks about each child's date of birth).
- If instruction-type text is on the same line as a question literal but the text is distinct (e.g., it is in capital letters), you can remove it from the question literal and add it as an instruction.
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