Improving Coding Reliability for Open-Ended Questions

Journal Article Improving Coding Reliability for Open-Ended Questions Get access ANDREW C. MONTGOMERY, Ph.D., ANDREW C. MONTGOMERY, Ph.D. the University of IllinoisChicago CircleThe authors are indebted to Elfriede Wedam and the coding staff of the Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Chicago, for assistance in empirical evaluation of procedures proposed here. The authors express their appreciation to Robert K. LeBailly and Richard B. Warnecke for their comments on an earlier draft. The article is dedicated to the memory of Shirley A. Star, 1918–1976, who in the early 1950s at the National Opinion Research Center had developed and was using a sort procedure for coding open-ended questions. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar KATHLEEN S. CRITTENDEN KATHLEEN S. CRITTENDEN Associate Professor in the Sociology Department the University of IllinoisChicago CircleThe authors are indebted to Elfriede Wedam and the coding staff of the Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Chicago, for assistance in empirical evaluation of procedures proposed here. The authors express their appreciation to Robert K. LeBailly and Richard B. Warnecke for their comments on an earlier draft. The article is dedicated to the memory of Shirley A. Star, 1918–1976, who in the early 1950s at the National Opinion Research Center had developed and was using a sort procedure for coding open-ended questions. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 2, SUMMER 1977, Pages 235–243, https://doi.org/10.1086/268378 Published: 01 January 1977