Creating
a Form for Data Entry (Continued)
There are two components to the form. One
is the text itself. The text is simply the questions on
the survey. The text can be typed directly into the
workspace window, loaded from an existing
word-processed document, or automatically generated from the codebook. It may be formatted in any style
you want.
The other component is the data
input fields. Data input fields define
where the responses will be typed on the form. The form
is a combination of text and data input fields. Data
input fields are easy to identify because they are shown
on the form in yellow. They appear as a variable number
enclosed in brackets. Usually, a form will have one data
input field for each variable in the codebook.
This is what a form might look like:
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