USING MARK-SENSE CARDS FOR COLLECTING OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION
Abstract
The feasibility of automatic processing of occupational data recorded on IBM mark-sense cards as an alternative to key punching the data written in inventory booklets was studied. Three administrative procedures were used in collecting information from 367 air police incumbents. Comparisons of accuracy, processing time, and costs were made across data-processing methods, skill level, and administrative procedure. With carefully designed inventory and card formats, visual scanning, machine editing, and top maintenance of the IBM reproducer, the mark-sense technique was found feasible, but more expensive than the key-punch method. The 2 administrative techniques, in which incumbents marked whether they performed each task in the inventory before adding unlisted tasks, elicited twice as many write-in statements as the third technique, where incumbents were merely to read the listed statements before adding write-ins. When the incumbents rated tasks for both amount of time spent and training required, the correlation between the ratings was lowest when the first ratings were not visible during the second rating.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0603108
Entities
People
- Donald B. Gragg