Ch10 Key Terms

Question 1

Coding

Answer 1

Grouping and assigning values to responses from the survey

Question 2

Cross-tabulation

Answer 2

Treating two or more variables, categorizing the nb of respondents who have answered two or more questions consecutively

Question 3

Curbstoning

Answer 3

Data collection staff filling out surveys for fake respondents

Question 4

Data entry

Answer 4

Tasks involved with the input of coded data into a specified software package. This allowed the research analysis to manipulate + transform data into useful info

Question 5

Data validation

Answer 5

Process of determining whether a survey’s interviews were conducted correctly and free of fraud

Question 6

Editing

Answer 6

The process where raw data are checked for mistakes made by interviewer of respondents

Question 7

One-way tabulation

Answer 7

Categorization of single variables

Question 8

Tabulation

Answer 8

The process of counting the nb of observations that are classified in certain categories