Survey Automation Report and Workshop Proceedings (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Current Practice in Documentation and Testing
Current Practice in Documentation and Testing
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But to truly accommodate the survey experience, a CAPI instrument must also have the capacity for unprescribed flows. If a respondent suddenly remembers income of $5,000 rather than the $1,000 reported earlier in the interview, there must be the facility to backtrack in the instrument, fill in a new answer, and proceed with the interview either by returning to the previous spot in the instrument or by computing a new path based on the changed answer.
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End users and OMB could benefit from documentation that suggests how specific survey items map to specific data needs and output data locations. Lilcewise, it could help survey designers map survey specifications to their implementations in the code and allow them to detect coding errors that may malce it impossible for respondents to reach certain parts of a questionnaire.
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, an automatically generated set of linlced HTML pages that allow a user to browse through the logic of a questionnaire, identifying questions or decision points that flow directly into or out of a particular item in the questionnaire. The emerging dominant survey authoring language, Blaise, also has a companion software suite for automated documentation under development.
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