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Hello,
I am trying to create a survey in Qualtrics. Without going too much in depth the survey is to analyze the likelihood of certain events occurring. The user will fill out the survey answering questions that are related to the types of events. Examples of events are natural disasters, economic changes, political changes etc... Answers to some questions will impact multiple events, while some will only impact one event.
The output of the survey is the result of analysis of the survey answers, giving a "score" for how likely each event is to occur. This means that there needs to be some kind of "tag" in the background of questions referring to which event they will impact.
For example if these are the questions and there are 4 events.
1) abc (event 1 & 3)
2) def (event 2 & 3)
3) ghi (event 2)
4) jkl (event 1, 2 & 4)
I would like to have a tag in the background so that during the analysis, only questions 1 & 4 are used to analyze event 1, questions 2, 3, and 4 are using for event 2, questions 1 & 2 for event 3, and question 4 for event 4.
Is there a way to do this in qualtrics? Essentially "tagging" questions to events for the analysis part of the survey. This would not impact the user experience of the survey, they would simply answer the question and not know which event it corresponds with.

Thank you!

A few possible options:

  1. Set embedded variables that define which questions go with which events

  2. Use the "Edit question label" functionality to embed event information in each question label

  3. Use Scoring and set up a scoring category for each event

Thanks!

TomG
Could you elaborate on the embedded data option if possible? How you would set up the embedded data and link it to an event. (Without changing the survey for the user, they would have to answer all questions regardless)

Could you elaborate on the embedded data option if possible? How you would set up the embedded data and link it to an event. (Without changing the survey for the user, they would have to answer all questions regardless)

In the survey flow set embedded variables that map questions to events:
Q1events = 1,3
Q2events = 2,3
etc.
Or, if it works better for you, events to questions:
event1 = Q1,Q4
event2 = Q2,Q3,Q4
etc.

Hi TomG,
In survey flow I see how to add embedded data to a "block" of questions, but is there away to add embedded data to a specific question one by one?
for example to add "tags" to questions where some questions have multiple tags.

Thanks!
Shira

No, you have to add embedded data in the survey flow. However, you can set the values of embedded data in a question using JavaScript:
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("EDname","EDvalue")

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