FARE 4360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Computer File, Microsoft Powerpoint

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 4360
• Professor: Andreas Boecker

Document Summary

Data entry: the creaion of a computer ile that holds the raw data taken from all of the quesionnaires deemed suitable for analysis. Data coding: the ideniicaion of codes that captures the possible responses for each quesion in the quesionnaires. Data code book: ideniies all the variable names and code numbers associated with each possible response to each quesion in survey. Idenify enumerators (those conducing the interview) who cheated (illed out survey themselves) Very small number of paricipants for which data is available for both taste and convenience. Criical assessment of the validity of the responses. Been concerned about sensiive issues, conideniality, or anonymity. Not had enough ime to complete the survey. Reduced sample size and increased sample error due to the smaller samples. Systemaic biases in observed responses, if respondents did not answer for a speciic reason. Addiional costs and ime when re-sampling is necessary.