Respondents Have Been Asked to Express Their Degree of Agreement

Multiple Choice

Respondents have been asked to express their degree of agreement with a series of lifestyle statements on a 1- to- 5 scale, assuming that 9 has been designated for missing values, data values of 0, 6, 7, and 8 are out of range. Where in the data- preparation process might any out- of- range data be caught?

A) coding
B) statistically adjusting the data
C) data cleaning
D) transcribing