In this article
There may be a time when your Survey includes a question with many answer alternatives, that you wish to simplify for the report.
For example, you could have a Single question where you have asked the respondent to state his/her age. The answer options in this case could be the age groups "under 18", "18 to 30", "31 to 40", "41 to 50" etc, but you wish to report on the age groups "Up to 40" and "Over 40".
Regrouping the answers is called Recoding, and can be achieved in two ways;
- In Authoring, you can recode the answer options before sending the data to Reportal for inclusion in the report. This requires that the Authoring designer (you) adds a special question to the Survey. This question is hidden from the respondent, and it takes the replies from the original question and collects the answers into the required groups .
- In Reportal, you can recode the data. This is the more flexible option because the Reportal designer has full access to the original data and can recode it as required. This procedure is described in the Reportal User Guide.
Note: The Variable Type of a Grid or 3D-Grid question cannot be set to “Recoded Variable”. However, you can recode Grid data if you set up a question as a recoded variable and then recode the Grid question data into that recoded variable.