Handheld Computers: A Feasible Alternative to Paper Forms for Field Data Collection.
The writers compared data gathered with paper forms to data collected with handheld computer-based forms in a field observation study of alcohol purchase attempts at 47 community festivals in a large metropolitan area. They noted agreement of over 95% between data collected with paper forms and dat...
| Publicado en: | Evaluation Review Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 165 - 179 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
April 2003
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| Sumario: | The writers compared data gathered with paper forms to data collected with handheld computer-based forms in a field observation study of alcohol purchase attempts at 47 community festivals in a large metropolitan area. They noted agreement of over 95% between data collected with paper forms and data collected with handheld computers. Furthermore, they found that computer-based forms handled branching patterns more appropriately and yielded data that were immediately available for analyses, whereas paper forms dealt with written comments better. They concluded that handheld computers were a viable alternative to paper forms for field data collection. |
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