The General Guidelines for Coding Unstructured Questions and Questionnaires Include

Multiple Choice

The general guidelines for coding unstructured questions and questionnaires include all of the following except ________.

A) category codes should be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive
B) category codes should be assigned for critical issues even if no one has mentioned them
C) answers should be abbreviated as much as possible
D) data should be coded to retain as much detail as possible