I’m running into a problem where the automatically generated question labels when I export the data (in wide format for the multiselects, as described in this post) skip a number. See screenshot below for what I’m seeing in the exported CSV, where the options count by one up until RES1_5 and then RES1_6 is skipped and the next option is labeled RES1_7. I think I must have created and later deleted a response option in this question that got assigned RES1_6. However, this was before any Survey Previews or generated Survey Test responses were created. No data are recorded under RES1_6. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I have code in R that works off an assumption that these multiselects are assigned a question ID in numeric order, with no skips, so I really would like to fix this on the Qualtrics side rather than the R side.

Perhaps you can try to recode the numbering of the options?

Wide export of multiselects - question ID skipping a number?

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