Questions ¶

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To edit a survey question, click the Edit button on the item’s design surface card.

Basic Properties ¶

All questions types contain three basic properties.

Name: A short name used to refer to the question in display logic or in the output data.
Question: The question text.
Instructions: Instructions for the interviewer or respondent.

Label: A questions’s label is used instead of the question text when showing the question in a table (for example, when used inside a Roster that is displayed as a table).
Description: General information about the question.
Additional Metadata: Additional fields may appear in this area. See Custom Fields for more information.

Selection Style: Indicates whether the respondent will select a single response or multiple responses.
Display Layout: Indicates how the choices should visually be presented. Options are vertical, horizontal, dropdown, Likert, and push buttons.
Choices: The choices from which the respondent will choose. To add choices, use either the Use an existing code list or Create a new code list button.
Other: If one of the choices should allow the respondent to enter additional text information (“other, specify”) select the choice from the Other dropdown.

Number Type: Integer indicates only whole numbers are allowed; Decimal indicates numbers with decimal places are allowed.
Minimum: The lowest number allowed.
Maximum: The highest number allowed.
Decimal Places: The number of digits allowed after a decimal.

No extra properties are currently available for date questions.

No extra properties are currently available for time questions.

The QuestionAttributes tab allows you to edit additional properties about a question.

Override Instrument Attributes: Indicates whether survey-level settings should be overridden for this question. See Survey Properties for details.
Allow Empty: Indicates that the respondent is allowed to skip the question.
Allow Don’t Know: Indicates that the respondent is allowed to respond that they do not know the how to respond.
Allow Refused: Indicates that the respondent is allowed to refuse to answer.