In all some 1,257 respondents were identified as having been asked some of these open-ended questions.
Only those who responded appropriately to a previous closed-type filtering question, thus indicating their willingness to contribute this sort of answer, were asked such questions. The open-ended questions were not asked of every interviewee. At various points in the interview schedule these were supplemented with open-ended questions, where the interviewers were asked to type the responses into free-text fields in the software.
Most of the questions were closed question type with pre-set multiple choice answer categories. Interviews were carried out face to face by experienced BMRB interviewers and the responses were keyed into laptop computers as the interview progressed. Samples were drawn from addresses within the EA’s 'at risk' register, these were the addresses of properties that might be expected to be flooded under some circumstances, e.g. The data was collected in 12 separate areas, all in England. This particular survey was called a 'post event' survey because it was focussed on communities that had experienced significant flooding events in the preceding 12 months. The survey data is characterised by a fairly large number of short statements.
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It was commissioned by the Environment Agency (EA) as part of a series of research into the effects of serious flooding events on households and communities. The survey was carried out by British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) during 2001. We hope that the dataset we used includes sufficient features to help most users find something of interest. This section sets out the main features of the dataset that was used to explore the features and capabilities of the CAQDAS packages under review in the analysing survey data section.Ī wide variety of different datasets could fall within the description of 'open-ended survey question data' making it impossible to cover a comprehensive range of possible scenarios.