Survey Question Types

Different question types determine how the choices and responses are displayed and analyzed.  

Single Response Survey Questions accept only one response from a predetermined group of choices. Examples

• Single Choice
• Single Choice/Other
• Single Select - Huge
• Thematic Map

Scale/Rank Survey Questions accept only one response from a predetermined group of choices. Examples

• Single Scale
• Multiple Scale - Grouped
• Multiple Scale - Huge
• 2-Column Scale - Grouped
• Semantic Differential
• Numeric Rank - Grouped
• Numeric Rank - Huge - Grouped

Multiple Response Survey Questions can accept more than one response from a predetermined group of choices. Examples

• Multiple Choice
• Multiple Choice - Huge
• Multiple Choice/Other
• Multiple Choice - Huge/Other
• 3-Column Array - Matrix
• 5-Column Array - Matrix

Numeric Entry Survey Questions accept open-ended numeric responses. Examples

• Numeric Entry
• Date Entry
• Numeric Group
• Numeric Group/Huge
• 3-Column Numeric - Matrix
• 5-Column Numeric - Matrix

Open-End Text Survey Questions accept text responses. Examples

• Text Entry
• Memo Text

Question types also determines the amount of space that will be reserved in the response data file. Examples of all question types can be seen in the sample web survey

Page last updated: January 26, 2008