When you administer interviews using a computer, you can control the flow of the interview using routing controls. These determine which question to present next based on answers to previous questions. Although routing controls are useful in a computer-assisted interviewing environment, most are unsuitable for use in a paper questionnaire.

However, you can simulate many kinds of routing controls on paper using routing instructions. These guide the interviewer or respondent to the next question by adding comments, instructions, and Go To statements. If the questionnaire definition includes routing information for paper questionnaires and you apply Looks that display this information, then the information will appear in the paper questionnaire.