Editing and Coding

Editing and Coding

1. Data Analysis

2. Raw Data

3. Information

4. Editing Concerns

   • Proper asking of questions by the interviewer
   • Proper recording of answers
   • Proper screening of respondents
   • Proper recording of open-ended questions
   • Interviewer error
   • Omissions
   • Ambiguity
   • Inconsistencies
   • Lack of cooperation
   • Ineligible respondent
   • Field editing
   • In–house editing
     • Edit for consistency
     • Edit for completeness

5. code book

6. Steps in Coding

   • Transforming responses
   • Assigning numerical codes
   • Creating a data set

7. Rules For Code Construction

   • categories should be exhaustive
   • categories should be mutually exclusive and independent

8. Test tabulation

9. Devising the coding scheme

   • not too elaborate
   • consistent complete and
   • Use code book

10. Data entry

11. Computerised data processing

    • Optical scanning systems
    • Intelligent Character Recognition

12. data cleaning