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This 4 page paper answers a set of questions set by the student on the way that coding takes place for questionnaire answers. The answers include the way answers should be coded where there are potential conflicts in the answers, critiques the way a question is designed, suggests a design for a classification scheme and suggests a short questionnaire to assess customer satisfaction with a book shop. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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File: TS14_TEcodequest.doc
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given to a questions asking if respondents favour or object to the Agricultural Trade Act. The answers are confused with additional information but to classify the answer, where
it is assumed that there the classifications are favor, oppose or dont know (a category for do no care may also be added depending on results). In each case there
is an answer given, "I dont know what it is, so Ill oppose it" is to be classified as opposing it. "Favorable, though I dont really know what it is"
is a favour classification and "you caught me on that. I dont know , but from the sound of it, I favor it" is another favour answer, It is unreasonable
t believe that on every issue an individual has an opinion ion which they may or may not take action, such as voting, will have full knowledge of that issue.
In each case an answer is given, and that answer should be used (Curwin and Slater, 2008). Question 2 In the next questions a scheme is suggested for dividing
respondent to a survey by dividing the income into different groupings. Overall, this is a poorly designed question. The first issue is that the respondent is not asked for the
income or to indicate which group it is in, but to look up the code and then give the code. This increases the potential for error as respondents are effectually
undertaking coding. The second issue is with the way that the groups have been devised. First there is not the definition of the time period, only a questions asking for
the total family income, this is likely to be per annum, but it needs to be specified. The income of $4,000 is on the list twice, while the first group
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