More than one question per page
The interviewing program normally displays each question on a separate page. The exceptions are loops that contain more than one question, where the interviewing program starts a new page for each repetition of the loop rather than for each question in the loop (see
Asking repeated questions for details.)
When questions are short and simple and are closely related, you might want to present several questions all on one page. The interviewing program displays the questions one below the other, but you can change this by using a template that applies a layout of your choice to the page. For example, with four questions you may decide to display the first two questions side by side with the third and fourth questions side by side beneath them.
This section introduces the following keywords for the metadata section:
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Keyword
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Description
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block
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Define a group of questions to be displayed on a single page
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compound
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Print categorical items that use the same category list side by side
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page
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List the names of questions to be displayed on the same page.
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Note page and block generate identical page layouts during interviews, but this might change in future versions. If you are writing an interview script that you may want to use in the future, we recommend using page when the requirement is simply to display multiple questions on a page, and block when the requirement is to keep the questions together for sorting or analysis purposes.
See
Question blocks: A block of related questions that will be displayed on the same page.
See also