Numeric grid questions
Grid questions are an efficient way of asking the same question about a number of related topics. The question is displayed in a tabular or grid form, with the subquestions (subjects) forming one dimension of the grid and the responses forming the other. A typical example of a numeric grid is a question that asks respondents how many times they consumed various types of soft drinks on different days of the week.
You can associate pictures with responses. These can be in any of the following formats: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, or bmp.
When you export numeric grid questions, the export process exports the subject and response texts exactly as they appear in the questionnaire. You can specify different texts for analyses if you want.
To create a numeric grid question
1 Click Insert Item.
This opens the New Item dialog box.
2 Choose Numeric Grid and click OK.
3 In Name, optionally replace the default item name with a name of your choice.
4 In Question Subjects, type the subjects that you want to ask about.
5 In Responses, type the answer texts one per line. See
Question limits for information about the maximum number of responses you can place in a list.
To set advanced options
1 Select the Advanced tab, and then see:
2 In Grid Layout, choose how the grid will be structured. Choose Arrange subjects in columns to have the subjects as the columns and the responses as the rows. Choose Arrange subjects in rows to have the subjects as the rows of the grid and the responses as the columns. This is the default.
3 In Number Type, choose either Integer or Real depending on the type of numeric answer you want to accept.
4 In the Minimum Value and Maximum Value boxes, type the range of values to accept as valid responses. See
Question limits for information about the range of values you can use for numeric responses.
To set presentation options
1 Select the Presentation tab.
2 Click the image next to the empty Presentation Style box.
3 On the Select page, locate the .htm file and click Select.
Build copies the file to the My Presentation Styles folder and displays a message to this effect.
4 Click OK to close the message box.
The name of the presentation template file is displayed in the Presentation Style box.
5 Click Apply.
To set export and analysis options
1 Select the Export/Analysis tab.
2 In Response Text, type the texts you want to use as the response texts for the grid.
3 In Subject Text, amend the subject texts as necessary.
4 If you want the changes to be saved in the .mdd file, click Update Grid Variable Values.
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