caetie
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11 years ago Making a change here poses an issue for data re-import, could use the backwards compatibility that @cfagiani built for the GPS data after we split up that column.
The number of columns you would need would depend on the number of possible answers.
What would happen with 'allow other'.
janagombitova
Feature request submitted by Ben Mann on Tender:
When exporting data from survey questions that allow multiple responses, all selected responses for a question are concatenated into a single field. For example:
Question: When do you wash your hands? Response: Before eating | After using the bathroom | After handling trash | Before feeding a baby
This is helpful for combining all answers into a single variable field for data storage, but it makes analysis very difficult. It requires a good bit of work to separate out the responses into separate fields using text-to-column in Excel (or other similar features in other programs) and manipulating the data so each possible response has its own field for each instance. Is there a way to store these responses as a binary response or export as individual variables? See my screen shots for more info. The final manipulated sheet took a couple hours of cleaning to concatenate and sort responses into correct columns for 300 surveys.