Adding Single or Multi Questions

For each open or open-ended (one for which the "other" option is checked) answer which is to be recoded, a new single or multi question must be added to the survey.

1. Add the single/multi question in the normal way by dragging a new single or multi question into the Survey Tree - .



Figure 1 - A Multi question for online coding

This question functions in the same way as all other single/multi questions; answer alternatives and corresponding codes must be defined in the Answers window for the question - . The figure below shows an example of a list. Any number of codes can be defined.

2. Add the required answer alternatives and codes to the list.
3. Click the Properties button to open the Properties list for the question - .



Figure 2 - Defining the multi question for online coding

  Here you define which question or answer is to be linked. The Properties list includes a checkbox; Opentext coding. 

4. Click in the Opentext coding checkbox to select it.

The Coding of field appears. This field is where you specify which open or open-end question (answer) is to be coded by this single/multi question.

5. Type into the Coding of field the qID of the open/open-ended question (answer) (in the example above this is why).
6. Click the down-arrow beside the Variable Type field to open a drop-down list, then select Hidden from the list.

This is to hide the single/multi question from the respondent.

7. Save the changes.
8. Go to the Designer > Launch Survey menu command and launch the survey.

This will now create a link to the chosen open-text question.

Question (form) type	qID to be typed in the “coding of” field	Remarks
Open Text	qID
Open Text List	qID _code	E.g: q5_3 will let you recode the answer alternative with code 3 from the Open Text List question q5.
Single, Multi, Grid, 3D Grid or Open Text List with an “other” option specified in the answer list.	qID _code_ other	For example: q6_98_other Here 98 is the set code of the “other” option in the answer list. With “other” you always have to include _other after typing the qID and the code.