The rationale and impact of Banques Populaires transformation from a cooperative to a commercial bank

VI DATA PROCESSING

^{Normally, data collected from respondents was in a row form, which was easy to interpret and analyze for conclusions. Data processing was used to transform the respondent's views into meaningful test.}

^{Therefore, enough was done to process it before proper analysis could be made. On this note, editing, coding and tabulating of data was done in order to be able to handle it easily.}

^{VI.1 EDITING}

^{Mbaaga (1990: 155) defines editing as the process whereby errors in completed interview, schedule and the mail questions are identified whenever possible. For some unclear responses, the researcher went back to the respondents so as to make them clarify their responses.}

^{VI.2 CODING}

^{According to Kakooza (1996: 29), coding refers to the «assigning of symbol or a number to a response for identification purpose». This was used to summarize data by classifying different responses, which was made into categories for easy interpretation and analysis.}

^{VI.3 TABULATION}

^{Frequency distribution tables were used after editing and coding of data. Tables were constructed according to the main themes in the questionnaire to summarize all the findings of the study.}