Di Bish - Data Preparation Manager



Di joined the Unit as a coder(*1) and her comments and queries about the process were so thoughtful that she was brought into the Unit so that we could harvest her contribution more directly.

Di now occupies the position held by Beryl Parkes of Data Preparation Manager, running the "Engine Room" of dispatching and receiving parcels, distributing and collecting coding(*1), allocating and marshalling punching(*2), running and posting school reports, chasing late schools and logging and reporting all this work.

Some 300-500 schools go through the books each year together with a variety of other data-processing work that we contract to do for other organisations[LINK].

(*1) Coding: turning young people's responses into numbers and looking for inconsistent responses. Most of our coders work from home.

(*2) Punching: typing numbers into the computer (from the days when punch cards were used)