Skip patterns are the sequence of questions asked and skipped.
For instance, if a respondent answers a question that indicates
she does not own a car, you can opt to "skip" items regarding
what kind of car she owns. To implement a skip pattern, you
must deploy a multi-page survey. You cannot implement a skip
pattern within a single screen.
Not every type of question can be used as the starting point
for a skip pattern. Only questions that force the respondent to
select a single answer (choose one of several, pulldown menu,
radio button) may have a skip pattern. You do not have to use
skip patterns to conduct a successful survey.
In this pattern of questions, if someone answers "No" to
question 1, then it is not necessary for them to answer
question 2 and question 3.
1) Do you own a
car?
Yes
No
2) What type of car do you
drive?
3) Is this the first car
you have owned?
4) Do you own a
home?
If you wanted respondents who do not own cars to 'skip' from
question 1 to question 4, you could create a skip pattern
which started at question 1. If the respondent answered "No,"
they would skip over question 2 and question 3 and go on to
question 4.
Notice there are Skip pattern not available icons to the
left of each survey question. Since this is still a single page
survey, you cannot implement a skip pattern yet. So you should
create Page 2 by adding a page break to the question that
follows that "branching" question. In this instance, you would
add a page break by clicking on the "Add a Page Break" button
next to question
2. Then, you need to create a Page 3, which is where the
branching or skip pattern ends. In this example, you would
click on the "Add a Page Break" button next to question 4. This would
create a three page survey that looks like this in the survey
edit screen:
Notice how the Add skip pattern icon is
now displayed to the left of question 1 on the first page of
the survey? This indicates that you can create a skip pattern
that starts from question 1 by clicking the Add skip
pattern button. You'll see a simple interface to control
the branching pattern:
1) Do you own a car?
Answer
Skips To
yes
skips to
no
skips to
Choose "Page 2" as the option for "Skip to" for the first
possible response and "Page 3" as the "Skip To" option for the
second response. When you click the green 'Add' button, the
skip pattern will be complete. Respondents who indicate that
they do not own cars will 'skip' over the questions on page 2.
The question that serves at the starting point for a skip pattern
does not have to be the last question on the page. You should only
include one skip pattern per survey page. If you try to include multiple
questions with skip patterns on a single survey page, SurveyShare will
only execute the logic of the first skip pattern it finds on the page.
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