Exam 18: Data Analysis: Preliminary Steps

____________________ is a source of nonsampling error that arises when a respondent agrees to an interview but refuses,or is unable,to answer specific questions.

Glaring errors are corrected through quick follow-up during the ____ while (the)____ is more concerned with deciding what exactly to do with the data.

The BEST way to handle missing items when analyzing the data is to

Which of the following strategies for handling missing data makes maximum use of the data?

Which of the following statements about the coding process is FALSE?

The most difficult questions to code are

Which of the following questions do you think would be the easiest to code?

Which of the following might indicate that a respondent lacked interest in a questionnaire?

A field edit is useful for clearing up misunderstandings about directions.

A questionnaire uses a 1-5 Likert scale to determine job satisfaction.When entering the data into a file,a researcher types a 7 instead of the 4 that the respondent had circled on the questionnaire.Such a mistake can be uncovered by performing what type of analysis?

The field edit is NOT useful for which of the following?

Tom was given the task of assigning numbers to each of the classification categories.For example,Freshman were assigned a 1,Sophomore a 2,and so on.This is known as the process of Assigning.

Which of the following might NOT be an appropriate strategy for dealing with missing information on a questionnaire?

The preliminary edit is NOT concerned with which of the following?

The most difficult questions to code are questions using the Likert scales.

Blunders are errors that occur during editing,coding or especially data entry.

Which of the following statements is(are)true regarding coding?

Treatment of missing data depends mainly on the

Which of the following is FALSE?

An error that arises during editing,coding,or data entry is called a(n)____________________.