Introduction to questions and question types

There are many types of questions that you can create in Questionnaire Designer. In practice these types will cover all question types, also including questions with open answer option.

Single choice question
Multiple choice question
Single Grid
Multiple Grid
Numeric
Duration

All question types are shown in the tables below where you can see how the question type looks in the editor and how the same question is shown in a web-interview. You can change the style of the questionnaire selecting a different style sheet when you create the new questionnaire).

Single choice question:

One answer only. Question showing radio buttons

Editor:

Web interviw:

Multiple choice question:

Any number of answers possible. Note that the last category in this example is an exclusive “single choice”.

Editor:

Web interview:

Grid single choice question:

Only one answer allowed in each row

Editor:

Web interview:

Grid multiple choice question:

Any number of answers allowed in each row. May also be specified to have an exclusive single choice category in a column (e.g. “applies to none of them”)

Editor:

Web interview:

Numeric question:

Enter a number

Editor:

Web interview:

Duration question:

Enter the answer in hours / minutes

Editor:

Web interview:

In order to change the question type from one to another:

Select the question type in the editor window, and select from the drop down list.
If you switch from single/multi to a grid question, column headers will automatically be added.
Similarly, multiple columns will be removed if you switch from a grid question to single / multi