Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Data Preparation and Description
Data Preparation and Description
Editing
Accurate Consistent
Criteria
Uniformly entered
Complete
Field Editing
Field editing review Entry gaps identified Callbacks made Validate results
Central Editing
Be familiar with instructions given to interviewers and coders Do not destroy the original entry Make all editing entries identifiable and in standardized form Initial all answers changed or supplied Place initials and date of editing on each instrument completed
Sample Codebook
Precoding
Coding Rules
Mutually exclusive
10
Content Analysis
11
Referential
Propositional
Thematic
12
Open-Question Coding
Locus of Responsibility
A. Company B. Customer C. Joint Company-Customer F. Other
Mentioned
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
Not Mentioned
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________
Locus of Responsibility
A. Management 1. Sales manager 2. Sales process 3. Other 4. No action area identified B. Management 1. Training C. Customer 1. Buying processes 2. Other 3. No action area identified D. Environmental conditions E. Technology F. Other
Frequency (n = 100)
10 20 7 3 15 12 8 5 20
13
Years of Purchasing
Less than 1 year 1 3 years
Yes
10% 30
No
40% 30
4 years or more
Total
60
100% n = 650
30
100% n = 150
30
100% n = 200
14
Data Entry
Keyboarding Database Programs
Optical Recognition
15
Missing Data
Listwise Deletion
Pairwise Deletion
Replacement