Automatic Variables

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Carlos

Automatic Variables

Post by Carlos »

Hello,

I wanted to know if there is a way of generating automatic variables from CSPro. For example, is there a way of catching the time someone took to input one complete observation? (Time of punching it took, for supervision). Also, variables that allows to compute % of completeness, % of eligible question, % of missing data (to compute Item Nonresponse).

I would appreciate if you could guide me to the documentation chapters, since I was not able to find that.

Thanks!
Gregory Martin
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Re: Automatic Variables

Post by Gregory Martin »

If you just want to know how long the interviewer took to enter data, you can use the log file that is generated along with your data file. See more here:

http://www.csprousers.org/help/html/ope ... s_file.htm

Or look here at the Operator Statistics Viewer: http://www.csprousers.org/tools/

For more detailed metrics, you will have to program yourself such checks into your application. For example, if you want to know how long it takes to complete a section, you can use the systime function and write logic to record when the interviewer entered and then left the section.

Likewise, for determining things like the completeness of a questionnaire, your easiest option is to write a batch edit application that analyses the data file and applies logic to determine completeness. CSPro cannot do this automatically because it doesn't understand what completeness means (some questions should be skipped in certain circumstances, so skipped questions don't necessarily mean that a questionnaire is incomplete).
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