I am trying to determine the best way to structure a series of survey
questions, keeping in mind that I need to make it easy to use for the
respondent, easy to code, and easy to tabulate the data later on. 

I can structure the following typical question as a single set of
checkboxes:

Q5: Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply):  [ ]
Sciences [ ] Management/Business [ ] Law [ ] Communications  [ ] Other

Using a single datafield for the question, I then would need to parse a
comma-delimited list to separated the answers.

- or - I can use a series of radio buttons:

Q5:Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply):
                   A. Sciences  [ ]
      B. Management/Business  [ ]
                      C. Law  [ ]
           D. Communications  [ ]
                    E. Other  [ ]

If I use a separate data field (5 in this case) for each sub-part of the
question, then it is easy to tabulate results for each part.

Recommendations appreciated.

Richard Colman




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