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Question types in Q4

by Jan 4. June 2010 20:30

The names for question types have changed in Q4.  Since a few new question types were being added to Q4, we took this chance to simplify the old question types.  The new names are shorter, more distinct, and relate better to the terminology used in surveys.  We hope that the new names will remove the confusion that existed in Q3 about the nature of the questions.

For example, in Q3 there was some confusion about the difference between Multiple Response - Binary and Multiple Response - Categorical questions.  They are now named Pick Any and Pick One - Multi questions, respectively.  The new names better represent the structure of the questions as they are used in questionnaires - e.g. "Pick any of the following that interests you" and "Pick one attribute that best represents each brand".

You can see a complete listing of all the new question types in the Quick Start guide, either in hard copy (page 35) or online (page 39 in Adobe Acrobat).  To understand how these question types determine what statistics are available in tables, click Help > Online Training in Q and complete the Question Types and Statistics tutorial, under Fundamentals, Creating Tables.

If you are a Q3 user who is upgrading to Q4, a list of the changes from Q3 to Q4 may help ease the transition for the first few weeks:

Q3Q4
Single Response - Text Text
Multiple Response - Text Text - Multi
Single Response - Categorical Pick One
Multiple Response - Categorical Pick One - Multi
Single Response - Numeric Number
Multiple Response - Numeric Number - Multi
Two Dimensional - Numeric Number - Grid
Multiple Response - Binary Pick Any
Two Dimensional - Binary Pick Any - Grid
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