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DATA PREPARATION

AND DESCRIPTION

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Editing
 Detects errors and omissions,
 Corrects them when possible, and

 Certifies that minimum data quality


standards are achieved

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Editing (cont.)

 Guarantees that data are


• accurate
• consistent with other information
• uniformly entered
• complete
• arranged to simplify coding and
tabulation

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Editing
 Field Editing
• translation of ad hoc abbreviations and
symbols used during data collection
• validation of the field results.
 Central Editing

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Coding
 Rules that guide the establishment of
category sets
• Appropriate to the research problem
and purpose
• Exhaustive
• Mutually exclusive
• Derived from one classification principle
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Content Analysis for Coding
 Measures the semantic content of a
message
 Researches the objective, systematic,
and quantitative description of the
content of a communication
• Syntactical unit
• Referential unit
• Propositional unit
6 • Thematic unit
Data Entry Options
 Optical scanning
 Voice recognition

 Keyboard

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Data Entry Formats
 Database with full screen editor
 Spreadsheet

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Descriptive Statistics
 Distribution Descriptors
• Location
• Spread
• Shape

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Descriptive Statistics
 Distribution Descriptors
• Location
• Central Tendency
• Mean
• Median
• Mode

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Descriptive Statistics
 Distribution Descriptors
• Spread
• Variance,
• Standard Deviation,
• Range,
• Interquartile Range

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Descriptive Statistics
 Distribution Descriptors
• Shape
• Skewness
• Kurtosis

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