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4 months 1 week ago #266369 by tammo
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I received a question where someone for a study want to ask quetions in these language variants:

UK English
US English
Canada English
Canada French
Belgium French
Belgium Dutch
The Netherlands Dutch
Spain Spanish
US Spanish
Italy Italian
Germany German

I guess the feedback texts for similar languages (Canada French and Belgium French) can stay the same, but the question texts may differ because some medical texts that differ per country/region will be used. How can I construct a survey with these languages?


 


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4 months 1 week ago #266370 by holch
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I guess you are referring to languages that do not exist or are not separate in Limesurvey.

But you can always create 'your own' languages. E.g. US vs UK English, you can make a copy of English and create one that is US (or UK), for Belgium French make a copy of French, for Belgium Dutch make a copy of dutch.

However, how we did this back in the day for big international studies, we usually skipped the multilanguage features of the survey tool (not Limesurvey), but rather created separate surveys, because it is often not just the language, but sometimes slightly different questions or answer options. This is the most flexible option. Create one survey per country / language.

But for example for Belgium, despite the two languages, they health system should be the same, so you could have one survey with dutch and french for Belgium. Same for Canada.

So depending on how different the questions and answer options between countries are, I would probably go for 1 survey per country.

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