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Marcel
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Following on from my venture into experimenting with using Inquisit to present some survey data
this post.
I wonder if there may be a way to set up this task to store the data in a single row for each subject after having used a block element.
A simplified example:
<block demographics>
/trials = [1=demographics1]
</block>
<surveypage demographics1>
/ caption = "Please answer the following demographic questions"
/ fontstyle = ("Verdana", -16, true, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ questions = [1=sex; 2=age]
</surveypage>
<dropdown sex>
/ caption = "Sex"
/ options = ("female", "male")
</dropdown>
<textbox age>
/ caption = "Age"
/ mask = positiveinteger
/ range = (7, 110)
</textbox>
I wonder if there is a way to write a data element (or similar) that will do as described above?
<data>
/ columns = [subject, dropdown.sex.response, textbox.age.response]
/file = "responses.iqdat"
</data>
Thank you
Marcel
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If you want a single-line data file for survey data, why don't you use the <survey> element? A <survey> element is a special type of <block> and can be run via the <expt> element's /blocks attribute.
Note, though, that you *don't* want to use <survey> elements if you happen to repeat some <surveypage> elements or question elements over an over. How could that be captured in a single line file? Single-line survey data provides *one column per question*, thus different responses to repeated instances of a given question element simply cannot be captured that way.
Instead, you need to re-structure / aggregate your data using your preferred data management / statistical analysis application. All of them provide facilities to do so -- such data preparation it is a routine task in the course of most computerized data collection and research.
Edited to add: Example for the above -- observe the differences between the 3 resulting data files and how they correspond to the respective <survey>s vs. <block> setup.
<expt myexpt>
/ blocks = [1=mysurvey1; 2=mysurvey2; 3=myblock]
</expt>
<survey mysurvey1>
/ pages = [1-2=mypage1]
</survey>
<survey mysurvey2>
/ pages = [1=mypage1; 2=mypage2]
</survey>
<block myblock>
/ trials = [1-2=mypage1]
</block>
<surveypage mypage1>
/ questions = [1=myrb]
</surveypage>
<surveypage mypage2>
/ questions = [1=myrb]
</surveypage>
<radiobuttons myrb>
/ options = ("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F")
</radiobuttons>
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