Hi, everyone. I am trying to create a question in Survey Solutions where respondents can enter the total number of household members, but the input should be separated into males and females within the same question.
Ideally, I would like to have a categorical multi-select question where:
Option 1: Male – (Allows numeric input)
Option 2: Female – (Allows numeric input)
However, I cannot find an option to enable numeric input for each selected category. Is there a way to achieve this within Survey Solutions, or is there an alternative method?
Any guidance or workaround would be greatly appreciated!
Why not simply have two numeric questions: one for number of males; another for the number of females?
If you need to have a mutli-select question before hand, where one selects the gender category of people in the household, could you then enable the numeric questions accordingly (e.g., enable the number of males question if male was selected in your multi-select)?
The total is then the sum of the number of males and number of females.
You can either:
calculate the sum it automatically;
calculate the sum it automatically and display to the user;
calculate the sum it automatically and display to the user and ask to confirm with a Y/N question;
ask the user directly (before or after the two questions) and verify whether it coincides with the answers.
Depending on the survey one may opt for one of the above.
However, keep in mind that there are situations where M+F=T is not the same as T-M=F. And what I mean is that it can be that the respondent knows the total, but doesn’t know the distribution. So if you ask the T and M, you can calculate F when both T and M are answered. This is hardly relevant for household members, where every member knows the sexes of everyone else. But if asking about, e.g. employees of a factory, the total may be well known, but the gender distribution - not so much. By asking
A) How many employees are working in this factory? (T)
B) How many of them are male? (M)
Calculate F = T - M
for this situation you can get a better picture (T=#, M=., F=.) then (M=., F=., T=.) then with the questionnaire
A) How many male employees are working in this factory? (M)
B) How many male employees are working in this factory? (F)
Calculate T = M + F