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21) After the surveys have been finished: A) data entry follows. B) questionnaires are scrutinized and completed ones are identified. C) they should be sent for data entry. D) they should be shown to the client to verify that they were completed. E) all respondents should be recalled by a supervisor to ensure that they were actually interviewed. 22) Rachel Marsh was responsible for conducting a survey of her college to determine what extent the students were in favour of a number of changes the college administration was considering. She would need to collect four hundred completed interviews in a five-day period, and the administration had given her a budget of $2,000.00 to collect the information. Rachel put posters up around the campus asking for students who wanted to earn extra cash by interviewing other students on campus. At the meeting of the volunteers, Rachel offers to pay them $8.00 an hour and told them they should complete at least three interviews for each hour they worked. Rachel’s decision to pay the interviewers this way will: A) help ensure there are no misunderstandings among the fieldworkers collecting the information. B) help ensure that there is a minimum amount of fatigue among the fieldworkers collecting the information. C) help ensure that her fieldworkers do not falsify their work. D) help ensure that leading respondents will be held at a minimum because she is giving the fieldworkers ample time to conduct the interviews. E) help control intentional respondent errors. 23) Which of the following is the term used to refer to the creation of a computer file that holds the raw data taken from all of the completed questionnaires? A) data entry B) data coding C) data analysis D) data changes E) data code book 24) The statistical software that is used with your textbook is called: A) Websurveyor. B) MICROStats. C) SPSS. D) XL Data Analyst. E) Excel Data Analyst. 25) Which of the following best describes data entry? A) identification of codes that pertain to the possible responses for each question on the questionnaire B) identification of all the variable names and code numbers associated with each possible response to each question making up the dataset C) raw data arranged in columns representing answers to various questions and in rows representing each respondent or case D) the creation of a computer file that holds the raw data taken from all of the completed questionnaires E) a process of importing data from other stat packages that are Intel-compatible into XL Data Analyst 26) Which of the following best describes data coding? A) the creation of a computer file that holds the raw data taken from all of the questionnaires deemed suitable for analysis B) identification of computer code values that pertain to the possible responses for each question on the questionnaire C) identification of all the variable names and code numbers associated with each possible response to each question making up the dataset D) raw data arranged in columns representing answers to various questions and in rows representing each respondent or case E) using codes to represent responses of respondents who have been promised anonymity 27) Which of the following would NOT be a part of a completed data worksheet in XL Data Analyst? A) variables B) variable labels C) variable descriptions D) respondents E) data set 28) Which of the following identifies the variable names and code numbers associated with each possible response to each question that makes up the data set? A) data code book B) data variables identification book C) survey ID book D) respondent data book E) project master file 29) Which of the following best describes a data set? A) the creation of a computer file that holds the raw data taken from all of the questionnaires deemed suitable for analysis B) identification of codes that pertain to the possible responses for each question on the questionnaire C) identification of all the variable names and code numbers associated with each possible response to each question making up the dataset D) matrix of numbers and other codes that includes all the relevant answers for all respondents in a survey E) data arranged such that variables are entered horizontally and each respondent’s response is on the diagonal 30) What is the process of describing a data set by computing a small number of measures that characterize the data set in ways that are meaningful to the client? A) data description B) data summarization C) data demagnification D) data characterization E) data analysis