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Income variable

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August 24, 2023
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michelebattisti
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Hello! A quick question: does anybody has any advice about how to ask for individual income in a survey on Qualtrics? We asked individuals to enter an amount (like '25500') in the past but it did not work very well: some entered 25 instead of 25,000, some seem to have entered a random amount probably because they did not think we should have asked that.
Income bands only? Slider? I am leaning towards bands, and then a slider that has the range of the chosen band, with the option not to answer. What are your views? And more specifically is there a way to adapt the min and max of a slider based on a response to a previous question? Thank you so much!

Best answer by vgayraud

Hello!

Unless you need very precise information, best practice would be to use bracket categories with a MC question and should include a “Prefer not to answer” choice.

Qualtrics library or certified questions have examples of that type of questions.

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/editing-questions/question-types-guide/pre-made-qualtrics-library-questions/#Certified

As far as I know, there is no native way to dynamically assign the range of a slider. That would require javascript customization, either directly on a slider question, or maybe more easily done by adding a slider with html and css to a text input question. In both cases, it might be a good idea to assign a larger step value than 1 to the slider: it can be infuriating to try to select precisely a given value on a slider ranging from 0 to say, 250,000.

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vgayraud
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
August 24, 2023

Hello!

Unless you need very precise information, best practice would be to use bracket categories with a MC question and should include a “Prefer not to answer” choice.

Qualtrics library or certified questions have examples of that type of questions.

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/editing-questions/question-types-guide/pre-made-qualtrics-library-questions/#Certified

As far as I know, there is no native way to dynamically assign the range of a slider. That would require javascript customization, either directly on a slider question, or maybe more easily done by adding a slider with html and css to a text input question. In both cases, it might be a good idea to assign a larger step value than 1 to the slider: it can be infuriating to try to select precisely a given value on a slider ranging from 0 to say, 250,000.

Vincent Gayraud - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-gayraud-790344116/

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