Repeated questions occur when you need to ask the same question or set of questions more than once. Usually the question text varies slightly for each repetition so that, for instance, each repetition refers to a different brand or product.

You can present repeated questions in two ways: as a grid or as a loop. With a grid, all the repetitions are displayed in a table on a single page, with the questions forming one dimension of the table (usually the columns) and the answers to the questions forming the other dimension. The loop method displays each repetition on a separate page as if you had defined each repetition as a separate question. Often the choice of presentation method will be entirely up to you, but you might find that in some instances one method works better than the other.

This section introduces the following keywords for the metadata section of the interview script:

Ask repeated questions either as a set of repetitions or as a grid: see Asking repeated questions

Add and remove iterations: see Unbounded loops

Create numeric loops based on answers to a previous question with no maximum value: see Numeric loops

Nested loops: see Loops inside loops

Printing and tabulating repeating questions as grids (using UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper).