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This discussion is written in specific reference to the following versions of CAQDAS packages ATLAS.ti version 6 MAXqda version 2007 NVivo version 8 and QDA Miner version 3.2. If accuracy of data capture is a significant requirement of such face to face survey interview research then serious consideration should be given to making audio recordings of the actual responses and transcribing these separately. ', also some typed an obvious précis of the response using third person pronouns. It is also apparent that some interviewers typed comments from their own point of view, sometimes even referencing themselves with phrases like 'Interviewer note. The skill required to obtain and carry-out a quantitative survey interview would not generally include typing verbatim speech in real time. This is understandable since most survey interviews require single keystroke (often numeric) actions to take down the data. It is apparent from the data collected that the interviewers’ typing skills varied considerably as some have frequent spelling errors.

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Each case was identifiable using a 5 digit serial number. Socio-demographic data was used from the quantitative dataset that had been set up in SPSS. The mean length was 66 characters, or about 15 words. The length of the recorded responses varied from a couple of words to about 145 words, although most were a single short sentence. None of the respondents provided an answer to all 8 of these particular questions, a few answered 7 of them, and some were not recorded as answering any of them. The number of responses to each question ranged from 52 to 361. Eight such questions were selected for further analysis, yielding a total of 1,456 responses. In all some 1,257 respondents were identified as having been asked some of these open-ended questions.

Only those who responded appropriately to a previous closed-type filtering question, thus indicating their willingness to contribute this sort of answer, were asked such questions. The open-ended questions were not asked of every interviewee. At various points in the interview schedule these were supplemented with open-ended questions, where the interviewers were asked to type the responses into free-text fields in the software. Most of the questions were closed question type with pre-set multiple choice answer categories.

Interviews were carried out face to face by experienced BMRB interviewers and the responses were keyed into laptop computers as the interview progressed. Samples were drawn from addresses within the EA’s 'at risk' register, these were the addresses of properties that might be expected to be flooded under some circumstances, e.g. The data was collected in 12 separate areas, all in England. This particular survey was called a 'post event' survey because it was focussed on communities that had experienced significant flooding events in the preceding 12 months. The survey data is characterised by a fairly large number of short statements.

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It was commissioned by the Environment Agency (EA) as part of a series of research into the effects of serious flooding events on households and communities. The survey was carried out by British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) during 2001. We hope that the dataset we used includes sufficient features to help most users find something of interest. This section sets out the main features of the dataset that was used to explore the features and capabilities of the CAQDAS packages under review in the analysing survey data section.Ī wide variety of different datasets could fall within the description of 'open-ended survey question data' making it impossible to cover a comprehensive range of possible scenarios.