Skip Logic Manager

Similarly, if the respondent indicated that his experience of the site was "Poor," the next question could be: "What could we do to make the site better?"

Branching in this way is accomplished by creating a "Skip Logic" in which you specify the condition and the consequences.

Because it is only possible to skip forwards, not backwards, through your survey, branching must be carefully charted. Furthermore, all of your questions must be in their final order before the branching pattern is implemented.

Conditional Branching occurs only if the condition is met. An example of conditional branching is the statement:

"If the answer to question #3 is A, then Skip to Page 'Demographics'.

Adding Skip Logic

Adding Skip Logic

Enter a name for this logical sequence, and choose the survey, page and question to which you wish to apply the condition.

The Compare drop down menu allows you to choose whether you want the Skip Logic to occur when a condition is the same or different to an answer choice. So if a response Equals "yes," for example, a particular action may be taken. If the response is different than "yes," an alternative response may be taken.

Answer value lists all possible answers. Selecting more than one answer on the list (by pressing the CTRL key) allows you to specify whether the sequence will be dependent on all the answer choices being chosen or any one of them. To make the sequence dependent on all answer choices, select the AND condition; to make the sequence dependent on one answer choice, select the OR condition.

Next, you will need to create the consequence of this condition. You can choose between Jump to and Skip, which lets the respondent jump to a selected page, skip the next page in sequence or jump to the end of the survey.

On the Page drop down menu, choose the page to skip or jump to. 

For example, the sequence below describes a Skip Logic question used on the survey for iVegetarian.net. We created a page called "Basic questions" and added a question that checks whether this respondent is a vegetarian. The next question would depend on the response:

Survey: iVegetarian.net
Page: Basic Questions
Question: "Are you a vegetarian?"
Compare: Equals to
Answers (OR): No
Action: Jump to
Page: Not vegetarian

If the answer to the questions is ("Equals to")"No", the survey will Jump to the page called "Not vegetarian," mising the pages that ask about vegetarianism.