I am creating an evaluation survey in which a participant does evaluation by selecting the answers of single dropdown radio.

For example: question is Promoter Standing in Designated Place and the radio answer with assessment values are (Is in place = 2, Not in place = 1, No Show = 0) the question code is q65 and answers codes are (A1, A2, A3)

Same as above I have created 10 to 12 question

Now at the end I need to sum the score of all the answers however if any question is left blank, the sum should be considered as 0 because i have some conditions in the survey too

Can some one help me on this as I am new to limesurvey

Many thanks in Advance

Please refer to the manual - Qcode.valueNAOK - www.limesurvey.org/manual/Expression_Man...#Access_to_Variables

Hi,
why do you use the default answer codes "A1", "A2", ... ?
A1: Is in place
A2: Not in place
A3: No show
and not:
2: Is in place
1: Not in place
0: No show

Then "sum(q65.NAOK,q66.NAOK,...)" gives the score.

Regards
Joffm

The problem with using answer codes as scoring values is that you cannot have multiple equal values in a question. For example, you cannot have several answers with a value of 1 within the same question. That is why using assessment values and qCode.value is frequently a far more flexible solution.

Tony, of course you are absolutely right about multiple equal values.
I referred to tpervaiz's example.

I always have in mind a later analysis in SPSS or whatever. Assessment values are not stored in the database.

Best regards
Joffm

Yes, I understand that assessment values aren't stored directly, that's why I often use qCode.value to create my own "score" and then store that.

As for SPSS - recoding.