[DDI-users] How to code repeated elements?

[Mercurio, Rocco]

First of all, I usually set forms/questionnaires up in a table format, using
multiple columns for repeated questions.  This way, questions can be
asked/read once without painful repetition.  The trick to this, however, is
to be able to "clearly" label each header so that all of the
respondent/interviewer knows to answer all columns.

As per coding, I simply attach a number after each variable name (i.e.,
var1, var2, etc.).  In the long run, variables labeled this way are easily
sorted as well as managed.  As a SAS user, I do this whenever I can.

Hope this helps.
Rocco
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Stark [mailto:grahams at web-ideas.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:12 AM
To: ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu
Subject: [DDI-users] How to code repeated elements?

Hi,
      could someone give me some guidance?

I'm trying to work out how to code a repeated set of questions like:

"I am going to read out some words and phrases that have been used about 
the political parties. Regardless of which party you would vote for, please 
say in each case whether you think the word or phrase is true or not true 
of  Party A/Party B/Party C

i)    Understands the problems ordinary people face in today's world
ii)   Shares my values
iii)  Is honest and principled
[ etc ]

What's the DDI idiom for this? It seems to me that some combination of 
vargrps and moving the qstn elements outside the variables should do it, 
but it's not clear to me exactly what I should be writing. Can anyone point 
me to an example? Or is it simpler to just write vars that repeat
everything?

thanks,

Graham


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