=13.0ptHi,=13.0ptI’d like to use Limesurvey as a Voting Advice Application. To this end, respondents‘ answer reactions (typcially measured as „yes“, „maybe“ or „no“answers) to a set of policy statements need to be compared to a set of pre-existing scores which represent the party positions. The comparison itself would be calculated as the percentage agreement between the individual respondent’s answers to the policy statements and the pre-existing scores of the different parties. Thus, I am wondering if and how respondents‘ answer patterns can be compared with some external scores?=13.0ptBest,=13.0ptE.

It's possible.
Use Expression Manager.
But it's your challenge to create an algorithm to decide if and to what amount the position of the party matches the answer of the respondent.

I found an example here
[url] www.wahlomath.de/index.php [/url]

with an easy to understand logic.
As you see there are many,many steps. You will need a lot of equations.

A better way - in my opinion - is to link to an external php script (end-url) where you do all the calculations and fispkay the result.

Joffm

With that amount of equations you have to consider the column limitations of MySQL.

By the way:
In your text I see these "=13Opt".
What is this?
Did you copy the text; would also explain the missing linefeeds.

Joffm

A better way - in my opinion - is to link to an external php script (end-url) where you do all the calculations and fispkay the result.

Yes or AJAX calls.