The General Guidelines for Coding Unstructured Questions and Questionnaires Include

question 93

Multiple Choice

The general guidelines for coding unstructured questions and questionnaires include all of the following except .

• A) category codes should be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive
• B) data should be coded to retain as much detail as possible
• C) answers should be abbreviated as much as possible
• D) category codes should be assigned for critical issues even if no one has mentioned them