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Non‑question items: Exit codes
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The Exit item lets you terminate an interview immediately and flag it with an exit code of your choice. When you analyze the data, you can use the exit code as a means of filtering the data to include only interviews that terminated in a certain way, or to provide simple counts of the various ways in which interviews were terminated.
Build provides a standard set of exit codes, but you can define your own codes and meanings.
Exit codes can be a whole number in the range 0 to 2147483647.
Predefined exit codes
Code
Description
1
Successful completion
Any interview in which all relevant questions have been asked is flagged as successfully completed.
This is the default.
2
Premature termination with data.
Use this code to identify interviews that were not completed for whatever reason. This is a useful exit code for paper questionnaires or CATI surveys where the respondent can simply choose not to continue answering questions. It allows you to differentiate between these interviews and interviews that were stopped, where the respondent might have had the intention of continuing with the interview.
5
Terminated by quota control
Interviews that are terminated by quota control can often be confused with successfully completed or partially completed interviews. Use this exit code to flag interviews that were terminated because the respondent belonged in a group whose quota had already been filled.
6
Early completion
Use this code to treat an interview that is only partially completed as if it were a fully completed interview. You might decide to do this if the respondent has reached a certain point in the questionnaire.
8
Premature termination without data
This code is not applicable to products, which always write data.
9
Interview stopped with no data written
This code is not applicable to products, which always write data.
10
Interview stopped with data written
Use this code to identify interviews that have been stopped pending completion at a later date.
To define an exit code
1 Click Insert Item.
The New Item dialog opens.
2 Select the Routing Items tab.
3 Choose Exit and click OK.
This displays the Edit tab for exit items.
4 In Name, type a name for the item.
5 To use a predefined exit code, click Predefined Exit Code and then select a code.
6 To use a code of your choice, click Custom Exit Code and then type a number.
See also
Non-question items