Dear all,

I'm planning to conduct a survey on households members and the respondents would have to answer the same question for each household member in several question groups. For example, the year of birth for father, mother, child 1 etc.

So I'm asking for the members' first names at the beginning of the questionnaire and those names are then shown for the relevant questions throughout the questionnaire. Now ist would be the year of birth for Mary, John, Sarah etc. This is meant to make it easier for the respondents to maintain the order of the household members, especially for large households with 6-7 members.

Now the question: as first names are a very sensitive topic, I would like to assure my respondents that the names are only being asked for for the convenience purposes mentioned above. Can I prevent LimeSurvey from saving the answers to certain question? If I do, how would the workaround look like?

Thanks a lot!

Use an equation question at the end of the survey, that sets these names to "blank".

Example:
You ask the names in a question of type "multiple short text".
So they are stored in "Q1_SQ001", "Q1_SQ002", ...

Now in your equation set
{Q1_SQ001=""}
{Q1_SQ002=""}
...

Joffm

Thanks a lot! That's just what I was lloking for.