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<br />more efficient to use, room was allotted to record these comments. <br /> <br />TYPE OF INFORMATION OBTAINED <br /> <br />The number and quality of the responses were generally very good, There were some that were very <br />detailed and had great ideas, and others, due to inexp(~rience or lack of familiarity with floodplain <br />management did not fully answer particular questions. On the other hand, some communities felt there <br />was no reason for them to be filling out the questionnain~, Either there were no streams running through <br />the community or their town was on top of a hill. Bear in mind, when reviewing the data in Chapter 5, <br />the total number of respondents will not always ado up to the total number of questionnaires received due <br />to the number of communiti,~s who renlrned a questionnaire but did not completely fill it out. <br /> <br />DATABASE CONTENTS <br /> <br />Questions were phrased diffl:rently throughout the questionnaires. In an attempt to get the most use out <br />of the questions, different types of responses were stored in the database. For the Needs Assessment <br />database, there are four basic types of responses; text, yes/no, listed, and descriptive. Below are <br />descriptions of each type of n~sponse followed by a lJrief table of contents for the community questionnaire <br />and the organization questiotmaire, <br /> <br />Types of Responses <br />Text Responses, Text responses are very short and contain exact infonnation, Most text responses allow <br />only 30 characters to be typ(~d, Examples of text responses can be found in most of the community or <br />organization infonnation responses, Items such as tile address, telephone number, and respondent's name <br />are not questions that need to be deciphered or divided into smaller ideas, <br /> <br />Yes/No Responses, Yes/no responses were the checkl~d items in the questionnaire, Some of these <br />questions were also associated with a descriptive response for further explanations or a text response for <br />including a cost, length, or location. All yes/no responses used a list box. Basically, only the accepted <br />answers are allowed to be entered for that question. A good example of this, which is not quite a yes/no <br />response, is the effectiveness of existing or planned mitigation measures. The questionnaires asked for a <br />'poor,' 'fair' or 'good' rating. In the database, however, thl: rating is not stored as a text but as a number. <br />If a query of this type is planned, the assigned number will have to b,~ looked up in a table showing that <br />relationship. The number is needed to properly sort the data, <br /> <br />Listed Resoonses. Listed responses are for those questions that asked for either a list or were left open- <br />ended so that a community could answer with any number of responses, For instance, communities were <br /> <br />IIl-2 <br /> <br />97..{)6() 001 <br />