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Data Cleaning and editing

Research
Design

Exploratory
Conclusive
Research

Causal
Descriptive
Research

Cross
Longitudinal
Sectional
Design
Design

Single Cross- Multiple Cross-


Sectional Sectional
Design Design
Qualitative
Research
Procedures

Direct (Non Indirect


Disguised) (Disguised)

Focus Depth Projective


Groups Interviews Techniques

Association Completion Construction Expressive


Techniques Techniques Techniques Techniques
How long have you lived at your current address?
30

What is your age?


28 years
Issues in Questionnaire

1. Parts of the questionnaire may be incomplete.


2. The pattern of responses may indicate that the respondent did not understand or follow
the instructions. For example, skip patterns may not have been followed.
3. The responses show little variance. For example, a respondent has checked only 4s on a
series of 7-point rating scales.
4. The returned questionnaire is physically incomplete: one or more pages are missing.
5. The questionnaire is received after the preestablished cutoff date.
6. The questionnaire is answered by someone who does not qualify for participation.
Approaches

 In field editing
 In House editing
In field editing

 Identify technical omissions such as a blank page on an interview form.


 Check legibility of handwriting for open-ended responses.
 Clarify responses that are logically or conceptually inconsistent.
In House Editing

 In which of the following cities have you shopped for clothing during the last year?
 Delhi
 Chennai
 Bangalore
 Calcutta
 Other _________

 Please list the clothing stores where you have shopped during
Editing
Technology

 Electronic questionnaires
 Rules, Skip logic, validity
etc.
 Eg:’s
Editing for completeness

1. Leave the response blank. Because the question is so important, the risk of creating error
by plugging a value is too great.
2. Plug in alternate choices for missing data (“yes” the first time, “no” the second time, “yes”
the third time, and so forth).
3. Randomly select an answer. The editor may flip a coin with heads for “yes” and tails for
“no.”
4. The editor can impute a missing value based on the respondent’s choices to other
questions. Many different techniques exist for imputing data. Some involve complex
statistical estimation approaches that use the available information to forecast a best
guess for the missing response.
Coding

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