The General Guidelines for Coding Unstructured Questions and Questionnaires Include

question 10

Multiple Choice

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

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

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Definitions:

Population Of Interest

The complete set of individuals, items, or data that a study aims to understand or draw inferences about.

Councilman

An elected member of a council, tasked with legislating and making decisions for a local government area.

Descriptive Measure

A quantitative summary or representation of a set of data, used to describe the main features of a collection of information, including measures of central tendency and dispersion.

Population

The entirety of individuals or items under consideration for a statistical analysis or survey.