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A Numeric question is a “free text” question with a text field for numeric answers (non-numeric characters are not accepted). This type of question form could be used for example when asking the respondent for a value or a quantity.
In the Survey Tree toolbox, the object looks as shown below.
A Numeric object in the Survey Tree
In this case the object is being used to elicit the respondent's salary - .
Figure 1 - Example of the Numeric question
You can convert a Numeric question to Open or Date if you need to; to do so right-click on the object in the Survey Tree and select Convert to.
A variation on this question type is the Numeric List object. This object provides the respondent with a list of answer options, and allows him/her to type numeric information into a text field beside each option. This could for example be used to ask for values for a number of related items, such as previous salary rates as shown below.
Figure 2 - Example of a Numeric List question
You can convert a Numeric List question to a Single, Multi, Ranking or Open Text List. To do this, right-click on the object in the Survey Tree, select Convert to, then select the question type you require.
The various properties and settings available for these forms are listed in the Properties page (go to Question Properties Overview for more information).
Note: For Numeric and Numeric List nodes, the default Column width of the respondent's input box is calculated from the constraints placed on the node by the max/min/decimals/total digits property settings (go to General for more information). If the max/min/decimals/total digits settings are altered then the default setting will be updated automatically when the survey is launched. The default setting will be overridden if you type a specific value into the Column field.