On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 14:35:01 +0200,
  Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> The problem comes when you have questions that may be not applicable
> (8), or optional (doesn't know, doesn't answer) (9). The easy solution
> would be to have four tables:
> 
> yes_no
> yes_no_not_applicable
> yes_no_optional
> yes_no_not_applicable_optional

How about having a table with the valid codes for each question?
This should be relatively easy maintain and you can easily set up
a foreign key reference to this table to enforce integrity.

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