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Hi everyone,

I am building a Q methodology survey by using exclusion method. I have 40 statements. 
 

I start with 16 agree/disagree statements out of 40.

Then, using choice forward function, 2 statements out of 16, followed by 3 statements out of remaining 14, then 5 statements out of 11. So I don’t have to ask for the last remaining 6. 


Because participants do not need to select, the last 6 statements are not recorded as you can see in the screenshot.
Is there any way, the unselected choices are recorded as response? 

 

ps: I suppose I can make the another questions with the remaining 6 statements  and ask participants to select all. I would have to do it for agree, disagree and neutral and it would be unnecessary and boring for participants. I would rather avoid that if we have a way to get around that.
 

 

It may be tedious, but you can create Embedded Data and Branch Logic to set them to unselected option values in survey flow if they are unselected.


Hi ​@Chee Heng_SZ 

Thank you for your comment. Sorry it took me a while to figure out what Embedded data means since I am only one month old qualtrics user.

Now I did embedded data and the unselected choices are recorded. But it was recorded with both text and number. How do I make it to record the number only and not the text? Thank you.

 

 

 


Hi I have found a workaround for this. I used VBA to extract the number from the cell. It’s not ideal. but It gets me what I need. But it would be great if I can get the numbers straight from export data.

 


Hi ​@Okkar,

I am not very knowledgeable in this section.

Instead of setting unselected choices as embedded data, the alternative method I came up with is to create another hidden question below using JavaScript (Add JavaScript) that carry forward (Carry Forward Choices) the unselected choices from previous question. Then, recode naming variable (Recode Values) to numbers, add default choice (Default Choices) for all choices in this JS hidden question.  This JS hidden question will display the numbers of unselected choices. 

 

My example for question is (1) Dr, (2) Mdm, (3) Mr, (4) Ms, (5) Prof.

In the JS hidden question, i recode the naming to (1) 1, (2) 2, (3) 3, (4) 4, (5) 5.

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()
{
/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page loads*/
jQuery('#'+this.questionId).hide();
this.clickNextButton();
});
Survey flow: Block 1 is the question. Block 2 is the JS hidden question.
Data & Analysis Tab
Export with “Split multi-value fields into columns” disabled.

 


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