1.0 INTRODUCTION On my first day in the establishment, I was taken to the Data processing department where I was to work for six months and was put in the category of the temporary workers. I was introduced to the heads of the data processing department and also most of the staffs that I was going to be working with or should I say trained with. It was a very challenging start for me working in a new environment and meeting absolutely different people. I realized that I still had to make use of my programming skills I learnt in school . This trainings will be explained as we go on in this chapters. I was given a manual during the first week of my stay there to read and learn about the various applications I would be using and their terminologies in the departments. Some of these applications are :
Dimensions
SODA designer
DM query
SPSS statistics
Survey reporter
SQL
Some terminologies I learnt and used and their meanings are : s/n TERMINOLOGY
MEANING
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questionnaires
These are research work designed by the client to know what the market/ consumer think about a product in the market.
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planning sheet
Where the period or time frame of a project is laid out.
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Project
Every job is called a project with the inclusion of the job name e.g. Project paste.
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Interviewer The field worker assigned to a project.
5 puncher The data entry personnel.
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Respondents
An individual who enters a questionnaire for filling.
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Variables
These refer to each question in a questionnaire.
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PAPI(Pen And Paper Interview)
Respondent are expected to fill the questionnaires on their own.
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CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview)
Respondents are called in this type of interview and their responses are recorded by an interviewer .
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CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interview)
Respondents answer the questionnaires online via the internet.
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CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)
Respondents are interviewed