1956 Jrnl. Marketing 21 187/2 It was possible to precode the entire questionnaire except for the respondent's name and address.

1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 626/1 In view of the simple structure of the questionnaire, and the care taken to pre-code all the items, this proved less disadvantageous than might have been expected.

1996 Cultural Critique No. 33. 167 Foundational myths..precode the world in such a way that entrance to the world of ‘success’ depends on the imprimatur of one's cultural capital.

2000 L. Cohen et al. Res. Methods in Educ. (ed. 5) 284 Even though a response is open-ended, the interviewer may precode her interview schedule so that while an interviewee is respondingly freely, the interviewer is assigning the content of her responses, or parts of it, to predetermined coding categories.