Formats for sending
WAMMI Data by eMail
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Formats for sending |
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All our questionnaires are designed for online use. But sometimes researchers need to administer the questionnaires using their own display engines under licence, or need to use paper-and ink versions. It's then a question of getting your data to us so our report generators can score the data and produce the standard reports. Data submitted by you via email will be analysed using the same report generators as if it was online, but there is no facility for cross-tabulations and listing of user comments in this kind of data. See below for how to manage this.
Please study the online page of the WAMMI questionnaire (at www.wammi.uxp/en) to ensure that your version looks like our online version as much as possible. Please also include the text
in a place on your page where visitors can see it. You should also give careful consideration about how much of the ethical compliance statement you are able to include in your version.
WAMMI data is scored as follows:
Strongly Agree : 1 Unlabelled Buttons : 2, 3, 4 Strongly Disagree : 5 |
WAMMI data is basically provided in one block, each line consists of 20 numbers in two groups of ten, followed by a comma, and an ID for the participant. IDs may be numbers or letters of the alphabet but don't use accents. Here is an example:
1423542343 2543451342, 001 / lines beginning like this are comments and are ignored 4325323211 2321432343, 709 3212434343 4454232134, 510 / blank lines may be inserted anywhere 4321233343 4434323334, 124 2321432134 2324323215, 276 / / there are five records in this data set / end of data |
Use a text processor such as Notepad to create this file. If you are writing in a language which uses accents, make sure your text is coded as UTF-8. Use the Windows end-of-line convention (ie, CRLF, or in hex: 0D0A).
You can always put in blank lines and comment lines to make your data clearer to yourself. The last line
/ end of data
is not strictly necessary but it is good for safety's sake.
Your data most probably includes much more information than just the WAMMI responses. By using the ID feature, you are able to link the scored WAMMI data to all the other information your respondent has provided. In order to be ethically compliant with regard to identifying your respondents, don't include any information on computer media that can be used to connect an ID with the identity of a person. We usually pencil IDs on the top right hand corner of a questionnaire form, and put a small mark after the ID if we have checked the correctness of the entered data (it is a common fault to check the same data several times).
Your data needs meta-data in order to provide a correct report. You must insert the following information at the start of the data file:
/ lines beginning like this are comments and are ignored sitename: name for the site client: your name url: URL of the site OR write: Offline email: your email address date: date you submitted data for analysis, format YYYY-MM-DD |
Below is an example of a complete file. You can send it either as the body of an email message coded as 'straight ascii' or as a MIME encoded attachment, with a file type of .txt. The comment lines are not necessary, they just make it easier for you to review.
/////////////////////////////////// / demonstration data set from JK sitename: Demonstration Site client: Jurek Kirakowski url: Offline (paper) email: jzk@uxp.ie date: 2021-03-20 /////////////////////////////////// / main collection 1423542343 2543451342, 001 4325323211 2321432343, 709 3212434343 4454232134, 510 / pre-trials 4321233343 4434323334, 124 2321432134 2324323215, 276 /////////////////////////////////// / there are five records in this data set / end of data |
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