[DDI-users] Solving the issue of "Other - please specify"

[Samuel Spencer]

Hi all,

I had a bit of a brainwave late in the weekend looking at how to work with
the idea of complex questions in DDI.
The issue at hand is how to solve questions where a respondent either picks
from a list of codes or enters their own option. For an example see this
image from the ONS 2001 Census here: http://i.imgur.com/9xpvP.png

The normal approach is to use a MultipleQuestionItem, but there have been
issues about how to deal with the logic about what two answer when. I
believe a suitable approach that keeps the questions together, and supports
the logic is through the use of a SubQuestionSequence within the
MultipleQuestionItem.

Rationale and a larger example are available here:
http://bit.ly/yEPcZ5<http://t.co/ZTWxrGhe>
A more comprehensive example will be put into the DDI Examples Repository
later this week, pending critique of the suggested approach.

Cheers,
Sam.

--- Specificity is the soul of all good communication ---
--- When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box ---
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