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Welcome to our

presentation

Members of our group

• Dang Thi Phuong

• Hoang Thi Mui

• Ma Thi Hanh

• Pham thi Ngoc Yen

• Tran Thi No

• What is the difference between pre-coded and open-ended questions?

• What are the principles of coding them?

The differences between pre-coded and open-coded questions

Open-ended questions Pre-coded or closed

questions

•The interviewer asks a questions

without any prompting of the

range of answers to be expected,

and writes down the respondent

‘s reply word for word

 Eg: Asking the respondents to

state any five aspects of the job

that they find very interesting and

challenging in jobs

The respondent is offered a range of answers , or option ,

to choose from

 Eg: The researchers might list 10 or 15 aspects that

might seem interesting or challenging in jobs and ask the respondents to rank the first five among these in order

of their preference

•Require “probes”from

the interviewer to

elaborate or continue

the discussion

•Provide the

reseacher with a rich

array of information

•Enable respondent to

give their general

reactions to the

questions

•Help the respondent to make quick decisions to choose among several alternatives before them

•Often provide cruder and less subtle

information

•Have loss of spontaneity and expressiveness

•The problem of

open-ended questions is

interview bias

•The coding and

data-entry process is

greatly simplified

•Because the option of expounding on the topic isn’t given to a

respondent, there is no bias toward the articulate

•The coding and data-entry process is complex

The principles of coding questions

•Coding involves converting questionaire

answers to numbers

•The coding process is straighforward , with each question being given a column and

each answer a single numeric code in the table.

• Pre –coded or closed questions.

Eg: what sort of trip do you use the bus for?

a Going to work

b Going to school /college /university

c Shopping

d Visiting friends/ relatives

e Leisure

For this example a column is reserved for each

answer category because one respondent can give than one answer

In all other questions only one answer is possible, so

only one column is allocated ( examples in the

•Open- ended questions

One approach is simply to write down all the answers as they are given by the

respondents

It would propably be useful to group the

answer in some ways

Eg: Answers which are very opposed to the closure of the bus services would be

group together, while those that expressed

• Second approach is to group the answers and give them a code

Eg : what is your opinion on the proposed withdrawal

of the No.66 bus service?



•Very opposed to removal of bus service

•Moderately opposed to removal of bus

service

•Not concerned/ in favour

Code 1 Code 2 Code 3