Edit the following samples by stating if the response can be processed, needs to be edited, or needs to be thrown out:

1. Open Editing Examples:

Question: How many years have you been a member of The Gallery Club at Spectrum?

Response: One year, Ten months.

Process as is __________ Edit Response ______________ Throw Out____________

Response if edited_______________________

1. Question: How many weeks per year have you attended workouts at Golds Gym?

Response: Twelve days

Process as is __________ Edit Response ______________ Throw Out____________

Response if edited_______________________

1. Question: How many people have redeemed a coupon at the Brighton Car was this week?

Response: 711

Process as is __________ Edit Response ______________ Throw Out____________

Response if edited_______________________

Explain how you would code the following questions for data processing:

1. How did you learn about the Greenfield Mall? (Check all that apply)

___ Digital advertising

___ Newspaper advertising

___ Recommended by someone

___ other

1. How would you code a survey where a responded was asked 20 questions about the service at a restaurant looking for a rating from one to five. When the response is examined, all 20 responses are checked with a 1 response.

Would you:

1. Process the survey with twenty registered #1 responses?
2. Reject the survey for coding as the question was not taken seriously.

Answer A:____ B:_____

1. A question asked the age of a particular respondent. The best way to code this would be to:
2. Process the actual age of a particular respondent.
3. Group respondents by category (ages 0-20, ages 21-40, ages 41-60, ages 61-80, over 80)

Answer A:_____ B._____

1. A question asks respondents how many times they have gotten their taxes done at Miller Tax Services. How would you process the answer for coding?

Question: How many times have you come to Miller Tax Services to get your taxes done?

Response: Six

Would you:

1. Process the number 6 as the response.
2. Edit the number to a category (1-5 years, 6-10 years, over 10 ten years)

Answer A: ____ B:____

1. A survey asks the respondent to pick three of the five possible answers. They only pick one of the five answers. How would you choose to code the response?

1. Code each of the five possible answers with a number and count the responses returned regardless of the number of responses returned.
2. Throw out the question because the instructions were not properly followed.

Answer A:_____ B:_____

1. You issue a survey to 100 people. You get 17 responses. Should you:
2. Code and register the data.
3. Reject the survey entirely due to poor turnout.

Answer A:_____ B: ______

1. You issue a survey asking 10 different questions. The responded answers the first six and leaves the rest of the survey blank.

Should you:

1. Code the responses you have received.
2. Reject the survey as it is incomplete.

Answer A:_____ B:_____