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

[Wendy Thomas]

Actually Sam the normal way is to use a single question and
StructuredMixedResponse

Field Level:
ResponseDomains should be chosen that do NOT duplicate responses such
as CodeSchemes with overlapping codes. Be aware that certain
instruments may collect responses in such a way that confusion between
a code response and text response may be possible. The process of
resolving such conflicts should be addressed in the data processing
instructions. There is an assumption that if a text or numeric
response duplicates a coded response to a question, that the value is
that of the coded category.

See page 42 of DDI 3.1 Part II: User Guide

At least that how it was designed to work.

Wendy

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Samuel Spencer
<theodore.therone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> A more comprehensive example will be put into the DDI Examples Repository
> later this week, pending critique of the suggested approach.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam.
>
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