Part 1 of 2 Dr. Burrill has some good ideas. I will try to remember them. Be sure that the same conventions are used both times that the data is entered. If the same person does both entries, (undesirable but sometimes unavoidable), be sure that both entries for the same case are not done sequentially.
If you didn't have control over the instrument design, be sure to add a variable for "question seen but none checked". In my experience if we used something in the cell that is not a simple flag it was less confusing and required less cognitive processing to use the suffix of the variable name as the cell entry. (In SPSS it is easy =========== . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
