Week 10 Flashcards
What do researchers must ensure?
Ensure that interviews were administered properly and completely
What is editing?
Involves checking for interviewer and respondent mistakes
What is a skip pattern
Sequence which later questions are asked, based on the respondents answer to earlier question or questions
What are the editing process for paper surveys
- Whether the interviewer fails to ask certain questions or record answers for certain questions
- Whether skip patterns are followed
- Whether the interviewer paraphrased respondents answers to open ended questions
What is coding
Refers to the process of grouping and assigning numeric codes to responses to a particular questions
What should closed ended questions be
Precoded
What do open ended question do
Create coding dilemma snd were phrased this way because the researcher had no idea what answers to expect or wanted a richer response
What is the coding process
- List responses: Prepare lists of actual responses given to each open ended question on a survey
- Consolidate responses
- Set codes: A numeric code is assigned to each of the categories on the final consolidated list of responses
- Enter codes:
- Review responses to individual open ended questions on questionnaires
- Match individual responses with the consolidated list of response categories and determine the appropriate numeric codes
- Write the numeric code in the appropriate place on the questionnaire of the response or enter code in the data base electronically
What is data entry
- The process of converting information to a form that can be read by a computer
- This requires data entry device
What is intelligent data entry
The information entered is checked for internal logic and can be programmed to avoid certain types ferrous at the point of data entry
What is the data entry process
Validated, edited and coded questionnaires given to a data entry operator seated in front of a personal computer
What is the scanning technology
Form of data entry which responses on questionnaires are read in automatically by data entry device
What is logical or machine cleaning of data
Final computerized error check of data
What is error checking routines
Makes sure that the data are logically consistent
What are one way frequency tables
Shows the number of respondents who gave each possible answer to each question
What are the three components of the one way frequency table
- Total respondents
- Number of people asked the particular question
- Number of people answering the question
What are cross tabulations
- Examination of the responses to one question relative to the responses to one or more other questions
- Looks at the responses to one question in relation to the responses to one or more other questions
What do the cross tabulations include
Frequencies and percentages with the percentages based on column totals
What are common ways of setting u cross tabulation tables
Use columns to represent factors such as demographics and lifestyle characteristics which are expected to be predictors of the state of mind, behaviour, or intentions data shown as rows of the table
What are line charts
Simplest forms of graphs usually to measure overtime
What are pie charts
Displays marketing research results in a wide range of situations
What are 4 types of bar charts
- Plain bar chart (simple)
- Clustered baar chart: shows cross tabulations
- Stacked bar chart (represents cross tabulation results)
- Multiple-row, three dimensional bar chart this is the most visually appealing way to present cross tabulation information
What are descriptive statistics
Efficient means of summarizing the basic characteristics of large sets of data
What are three measures of central tendency
Arithmetic mean, median, mode
What is mean
Average
What is median
Value below which 50% of the observations fall
What is mode
Value that occurs most frequently and can be computed for any type of data