An interview contains more data that the system allows

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Hello,

We are currently encountering an issue in our data collection application related to roster size and nested rosters. Some households in the field have up to 200 members. Within the household member roster, eligible women are selected to answer the women’s questions, so we placed the women’s roster inside the household roster. Inside the women’s roster, we also have a birth history roster.

However, some teams in the field are now encountering the following error:

“The interview contains more data than the system allows”

This error appears after they add around 23 household members, even though the maximum household roster size is set to 200.

Fieldwork has already started, and some interviews have been completed, so we want to avoid disruptions. We would appreciate your guidance on:

  1. Why the system limit is being exceeded even with fewer than 25 household members.

  2. Whether our roster structure needs modification to avoid hitting system limits.

  3. If modifications are required, what steps should we follow to adjust the questionnaire while minimizing impact on ongoing data collection.

Here is the link to the questionnaire in the Designer:

:backhand_index_pointing_right: https://designer.mysurvey.solutions/q/details/846d4ccb-4d3d-43c9-af0e-a8a83c58572b

Any immediate advice or recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Please add:

  1. the version of the application in which the error message was encountered?
  2. web interview or tablet interview?
  3. what was the error message (verbatim).

If the issue is reproducible using web interface use the WebTester tool to enter and save a scenario which results in this error.

Unrelated to the above, I’d question your definition of the household if you are encountering situations when

See for example here or here.

That is not a justification of any interface error you are seeing in Survey Solutions, but rather a caution regarding a [potential] methodological error. Special cases of collective households (dorms, hospitals and other) where the number of members may be so large are typically handled using different questionnaires specifically structured to handle such situations.