# Coding of Responses
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This section is intended for the description of how survey responses were coded, including:
* Do any responses need to be interpreted (e.g., coding of open responses)?
* Coding structure (file of coding system)
* Coding tools (e.g., NVivo, natural language processing)
* Transformation of responses to coding categories (e.g., 1, 2 = low; 3 = middle; 4, 5 = high) (could be table)
* Layout of response file (e.g., flat file in which each record is an array of individual responses)
* Other file/data structures
* Treatment of missing data (e.g., impute values, ignore, delete record)