I'm sure this has been asked a lot, based on searches, but all the questions seem to be variations on such, so I apologize in advance if this exact quesiton has been asked but I couldn't see it when doing a search!

All I need to know is whether we can assign a score to each question's answers.
All our questions are similar, eg, "Do you have X Policy and if so, at what level?".  People may answer as follows:
Option 1: No, we don't have this policy
Option 2: Yes, we have this Policy, but we've only started to implement it
Option 3: Yes, and we've had it for years
Option 4: Yes, and it's reported on at Board level.

So, Option 1 might score zero points; Option 2 might score 1 point; Option 3 might score 5 points; etc.

Can we assign a score to each Option in each quesiton and then calculate an overall score, ie, if there are 10 questions, a respondent might finish with 25 points, when summing all their answers.

Thanks, and sorry for a probable duplicate question!

Hi, there are two options.

1. Code your answer options accordingly
 
Then you use the function "sum" to sum up all questions.
{sum(Q1.NAOK,Q2.NAOK,Q3.NAOK,...,Qn.NAOK)}

2. Use assessment values
Enable "assessment mode" in "notification & data"
Use the assessment values
 
Now you sum up but using the assessment values, which you access by QCode.value resp. QCode.valueNAOK
See here
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...#Access_to_variables [/url]
{sum(Q1.valueNAOK,Q2.valueNAOK,Q3.valueNAOK,...,Qn.valueNAOK)}

By the way: The NAOK is important if there are some questions not answered.
Without NAOK (No answer is OK) the sum will fail.

Joffm

 

Oh, wow! That is AMAZING! Thank you so much. I've enabled the Assessment Values, so we'll look at using that.

Thank you SO MUCH for your prompt and excellent answer.
Have a great day