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Data Imput

Week Two Paper
Data input is very important, will be reviewing the following types of data gathering
And explain what method of data input would be best for each of the following; printed questionnaires, telephone surveys, bank checks, retail tags, long documents.
Printed Questionnaires: computers have been always a great asset in today's modern world. A computer keyboard is one of the best known input devices in current use. (Statistics Canada, 2006).Batch keying use of a computer keyboard to enter data which is best used for large surveys. Tally charts can also be used implementing information gathered with either word processor or Microsoft excel. Computer technology plays a huge roll in accurately retrieving this type of data gathering.
Telephone surveys; can be interactively captured (Touch-tone) keypad .This method of data gathering is referred to as intelligent keying (Statistics Canada, 2006). The interviewer can manually input the answer choice into the computer system at the same time the interview is taking place using a system referred to as computer assisted-telephone interviewing (Statistics Canada , 2006). Also it depends on the type of telephone survey format software such as voice recognition can eliminate the need of a person and have everything automated by a computer. Stair & Reynolds (2006)
Bank Checks; using magnetic ink character recognition devices Stair & Reynolds (2006) the bank is able to process documents more quickly. "With MIRC, data is placed on the bottom of a check or other form using a special magnetic ink. Data printed with this ink using a special character set can be read by both people and computers" (Stair & Reynolds, 2006, p.59)
Retail Tags can be scanned by optical readers which are able to recognize alpha and numeric characters. These readers then transfer the scanned lines and translate the information gathered into a program (Statistics Canada, 2006). Retail tags using radio frequency identification chips...