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I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I I I I II I more efficient to use, room was allotted to record these comments. TYPE OF INFORMA nON OBTAINED The number and quality of the responses were generally very good. There were some that were very detailed and had great ideas, and others, due to inexperience or lack of familiarity with floodplain management did not fully answer panicular questions. On the other hand, some communities felt there was no reason for them to be filling out the questionnaire. Either there were no streams running through the community or their town was on top of a hill. Bear in mind, when reviewing the data in Chapter 5. the total number of respondents will not always add up to the total number of questionnaires received due to the number of communities who returned a questionnaire but did not completely fill it out. DATABASE CONTENTS Questions were phrased differently throughout the questionnaires. In an attempt to get the most use out of the questions, different types of responses were stored in the database. For the Needs Assessment database, there are four basic types of responses; text, yes/no, listed, and descriptive. Below are descriptions of each type of response followed by a brief table of contents for the community questionnaire and the organization questionnaire. Types of Responses Text ResDonses. Text responses are very shon and contain exact information. Most text responses allow only 30 characters to be typed, Examples of text responses can be found in most of the community or organization information responses. Items such as the address, telephone number, and respondent's name are not questions that need to be deciphered or divided into smaller ideas, Yes/No ResDonses. Yes/no responses were the checked items in the questionnaire. Some of these questions were also associated with a descriptive response for further explanations or a text response for including a cost, length, or location. All yes/no responses used a list box. Basically, only the accepted answers are allowed to be entered for that question. A good example of this, which is not quite a yes/no response, is the effectiveness of existing or planned mitigation measures. The questionnaires asked for a 'poor,' 'fair' or 'good' rating. In the database, however, the rating is not stored as a text but as a number. If a query of this type is planned, the assigned number will have to be looked up in a table showing that relationship. The number is needed to properly son the data. Listed Resconses. Listed responses are for those questions that asked for either a list or were left open- ended so that a community could answer with any number of responses. For instance, communities were III-2 97-060.001