Entering data from paper surveys

This tutorial describes how to enter responses from paper questionnaires using prompted mode. Prompted mode is the mode that the Snap Surveys data entry team prefer to use.

The survey used in the worksheet is Activate, which is included with Snap XMP Desktop. The survey has been cloned or copied without the raw data file.

This worksheet will show you how to:

• Enter test data
• Change settings to speed up data entry
• Enter live data

Step 1: Enter test data

This is a useful way to check that you have set up routing and question response types correctly.

1. From the Survey Overview window, open the survey. You can use an online or offline survey. In this example, an offline survey used is called Activate1 which is cloned from Activate.

2. Click OK on the Survey Details dialog.
3. Click on the Data Entry icon in the Snap XMP Desktop Toolbar.
4. There are three options for data entry
   • Questionnaire mode shows the same view as the questionnaire
   • Interview mode presents a single question on the screen at a time and shows the list of answers to make selections from.
   • Prompted mode shows each question as a separate line on the screen
5. In the Data Entry toolbar click Prompted Mode.
6. The responses from the image below are used as test data, click the image to open it in a new browser tab for printing. Close the new window to return to this worksheet.

Note: Snap XMP Desktop automatically routes from one question to the next, based on the Routing rules set for each variable. No Reply is the default value when no code is selected. Note type variables will be ignored unless set otherwise in Tailor-Data Entry.

7. Click Test Case to create a new test case. This will start at ID.interviewer

8. Follow the steps below to enter the test case data. As you progress through the questions press F5 or double click to open and close the answer options for a question.
   1. Press Enter
   2. Press Enter – today’s date is defaulted into ID.date
   3. The instruction type questions are skipped by default
   4. Type 1
   5. Press Enter
   6. Type 2
   7. Press Enter
   8. Press Enter
   9. Type 1
   10. Press Enter
   11. Type 3
   12. Press Enter
   13. Type Better changing rooms needed
   14. Press Enter

9. Click OK

Step 2: Change the settings to speed up data entry

When a question is set to a single response you can change the settings in Data Entry so that you don’t have to press enter to move to the next question.

1. In the Data Entry toolbar click on the Tailor icon
2. Change Answer Questions from Individually to Continuously

3. Click OK

Step 3: Enter a live case

1. In the Data Entry toolbar click  to create a new case

2. Enter the same data as you did for the test case by following these steps. The date and time paradata, such as ID.start, is automatically completed from the system date and time.
   1. Press Enter
   2. Press Enter
   3. Press Enter
   4. Press Enter
   5. Press Enter
   6. Press Enter
   7. Press Enter
   8. Press Enter
   9. Press Enter – today’s date is defaulted into ID.date
   10. Type 1
   11. Type 2
   12. Press Enter
   13. Type 1
   14. Type 3
   15. Type Better changing rooms needed
   16. Press Enter
3. At the end of the case an options dialog window opens.

4. Select the option required
   • Continue saves the current case and move straight on to the next one.
   • Modify allows the current case to be edited.
   • Cancel deletes the current case (delete it).
   • End saves the current case and not move on to another new one.
5. When you have completed your cases press End to save.
6. Click  to Spell check the literal response data
7. Data can be verified by being re-inputted, this is optional.

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