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Skip Logic: adapt surveys questions based on people's answers

Skip Logic: adapt surveys questions based on people's answers

You can add conditional branching logic to a survey that shows or hides certain survey questions based on a person’s answer to an earlier question in that same survey.

 

There are three methods you can use. This article helps you choose the option that’s appropriate for your survey.

Method

How it works

Method

How it works

JUMP TO a question

Basic skip logic

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You can add rules that cause the respondent to jump past one or more upcoming questions based on their answer to the current question.

 

This is best suited to situations where your questions are grouped by topic and there are certain topics that can be skipped if someone has answered a question in a particular way.

HIDE a question UNLESS

Intermediate skip logic

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You can add rules that will hide a survey question unless an earlier survey question has been answered in a particular way - the key point here is that the earlier survey question can be any earlier question in the survey, it is not limited to being the question which is before the question being hidden.

 

This is best suited to situations where there is a more sophisticated rationale around which questions you want to hide and which ones you’d like to display.

ADJUST a question WHEN

Advanced skip logic

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This allows you to show, hide or reword questions based on two factors

  • the interval of the survey (i.e. the point in time at which it is being completed, e.g. the ‘Pre’ or the 'Post'; formerly called the wave)

  • and who is completing it (the Respondent Type).