Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Data Entry

Today the team met at the Tongan Community Service Center to meet Diana to get trained on survey data entry. Once we got there we were greeted by Vanessa, Diana, and Sina. Once everyone got acquainted, we went to the meeting room to discuss data entry. We learned how to enter data into excel, we also looked at actual surveys that people took about breast cancer. There were 2 types of surveys that the subjects took, pre-test and a post-test. The pre-test was based on the subject's knowledge of breast cancer and the post-test to my understanding was taken after they've learned about breast cancer. So today, we learned that researcher do data entry and they have what they call sort of like a code book; for example, A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. So if the subject answered A for a question, you would enter 1 on the excel. We didn't have time to do Data Analysis and we all agreed that we would meet up next time because everyone wanted to learn more about analyzing survey data for future projects.

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