This text contains information about how to work with data entry to create the file that should be sent back to the ROSES organizers. To assist we provide the ROSES Codebook and ROSES Data entry files. These documents provide information about th e character of data and how data should be compiled, processed, and reported. They should be used together with the ROSES master ques tionnaire to complete the process of data collection.
In a large-scale research project, such as ROSES, it is important that answers of respondents in different countries can be easily interpreted which is the basic purpose of coding. It is also important that data are entered in data files correctly, to be able to compare results. The purpose with coding the ROSES data the way that it is described in the Codebook, is to reduce the large quantity of information into a format that can be analysed and compared in the international setting.