Survey Questions and Question Types for Multiple Choice Questions, Open Ended Questions and Miscellaneous Question Types

Multiple Choice Survey Questions and Question Types

• Single Select Multiple Choice Questions

  This is a multiple choice question with the ability to select any one of the response options. Radio buttons are used for single select type questions. Answer option orientation can either be vertical (default setting) or Horizontal.

• Multi select Multiple Choice Questions

  This is a multiple choice question with the option to select multiple responses. Check boxes are used for multiple select type questions. Answer option orientation can either be vertical (default setting) or horizontal.

• Drop Down Menu Multiple Choice Questions:

  Drop down menu based multiple choice question type is used when the number of options in the survey question is more. For example, if you want users to select their country. Instead of displaying all the options, we can simply add them in a drop down menu.

• Star Rating Multiple Choice Question

  Rank answer choices using gold stars in survey question responses.

• Text Slider Multiple Choice Question

  : Users can slide the bar to show their desired preference

• Push to Social Multiple Choice Question

  : This survey question allows respondents to rate an item, then, depending on the rating, recommends that the respondent share their experience via social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and Google+.

• Numeric Slider Multiple Choice Question

  Users can slide the bar to show their desired preference. Preferences will be numeric range.

• Thumbs Up/Down Multiple Choice Question

  : Ask a binary rating question using a thumbs up or thumbs down image to help define the rating options.

• Smiley Rating Multiple Choice Question

  : The smiley survey question is a 5-point rating scale, intended to represent a range of sentiments from negative to neutral to positive.

• Multi Point Scale Matrix Table Multiple Choice Questions:

  This question can be used when we need to group questions that have the same answer option scale.

• Matrix Table Multiple Choice Question with Check Boxes:

  Matrix survey question lets respondents select multiple options in the form of check boxes.

• Spreadsheet based Multiple Choice Questions:

  Matrix questions with text input options.

• Side-By-Side Matrix Table Multiple Choice Question

  Measures multiple survey question attributes side-by-side using the matrix table.

• Rank Order Multiple Choice Question

  Rank order scaling based multiple choice questions allow a certain set of brands or products to be ranked based upon a specific attribute or characteristic.

• Constant Sum Multiple Choice Question

  A constant sum question permits collection of "ratio" data, meaning that the data is able to express the relative value or importance of the options (option A is twice as important as option B)

• Drag and Drop Multiple Choice Question

  Respondents in this type of survey question can drag and drop the answer choices to re-order them as they choose.

• Single Select Image based Multiple Choice Question

  This is a multiple choice single select question which has images next to the answer options. Radio buttons are used for single select type questions. Answer option orientation can either be vertical (default setting) or Horizontal.

• Multi Select Image based Multiple Choice Question

  This is a multiple choice multiple select question which has images next to the answer options. Check boxes are used for Image Chooser multiple select type questions. Answer option orientation can either be vertical (default setting) or horizontal.

• Image Rating Multiple Choice Question

  Ask users to select one or more images from a set of images presented.

Open Ended Questions and Question Types

• Comment Box Open Ended Questions

  : This is an Open Ended question where users can input long texts in free form.

• Email Address Open Ended Question:

  This open ended question is used to capture email address inputs in survey questions. This type of question also allows validation, which means, only valid email addresses will be accepted when the validation is activated.

• Contact Information Open Ended Question

  This open ended question is used for gathering basic contact information from survey respondents, such as First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Mailing Address, and Phone Number. This is commonly used in demographic survey questions.

Note: Presentation/ Heading based open ended questions are used by survey creators and not survey respondents. This part of a survey is used only for display purpose. No user input is expected.

• Presentation Text Open Ended Questions

  Presentation text based open ended questions is text that can be used as messages, instructions or headings in your survey. It can also be used to visually separate sections in your survey. The section headings can also be used in the reports to help visually see groups of questions.

• Section Heading Open Ended Questions

  To Group the survey in to sections and to enhance the look of the survey you can add Section/Page Headers to the survey.

• Section Sub Heading Open Ended Question

  To Group the survey in to sections and to enhance the look of the survey you can add Section/Page Headers to the survey.

Miscellaneous Survey Questions

• Date and Time survey question

  Drop-down menu for date selection.

• Captcha survey question

  This survey question allows validation that the respondent is an actual respondent and not a bot designed to try to submit random answers to a form or survey.

• Calendar survey question

  Add a Calendar survey question which automatically frames the day in survey data.

• Map survey question

  Allows you to choose location for interactive surveys by adding custom maps for countries.