Processing a wave that requires coding
Each wave that requires coding is processed as follows:
▪IBM SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys or another coding tool is used to code open-ended responses into categories and export the coded data to IBM SPSS Statistics(.sav) file.
▪A data management script is used to merge the coded data with the original (live) UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server data and create a separate database for reporting purposes. The data management script will also add weights to the merged data. The new database is called the Wave database, as it contains data for the current wave only.
There is an additional step if more than one coder is working on your survey: all coded data must be brought together into a single file (by running another data management script) before it is merged with the original UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server data.
Depending on your reporting requirements, you can perform the process once at the end of each wave or, if your waves consist of more than one data collection, you can perform the process at the end of each data collection.
Note By default, the scripts referred to in the steps below are installed in folder [INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\7\DDL\Scripts\Data Management\DMS.
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