How do the WERS 2004 data files record responses from questions that permitted multiple responses?
Some questions in the Cross-Section Surveys of Managers, the Cross-Section Survey of Employee Representatives, and the Panel Survey of Managers, permitted multiple responses (e.g. CFACTORS in the Cross-Section Survey of Managers). These questions are identified with the symbol ^ in the questionnaires. In the data files, the responses to these questions are stored in successive variables (e.g. CFACTOR1, CFACTOR2 and so on). The first variable in the set contains the first response mentioned in the interview, the second variable holds the second response, etc. Some multiple-response questions allowed the respondent to give answers other than those included on the pre-specified code frame. In such cases, the other answers were recorded verbatim by interviewers and then subsequently coded into additional variables beginning with the letter X (e.g. XCFACT1, XCFACT2, XCFACT3). These additional variables follow the main set on the data file. The original other code remains present in the main
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