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How to combine responses to matrix questions from different question blocks

  • 23 July 2019
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Hi, I built a survey where I ask participants to evaluate four short texts. The survey has been responded and I extracted all the answers.
In the survey, I have four blocks of questions. In each block, respondents are required to evaluate one text. The questions in the four blocks are the same but the text that requires evaluation changes. For each block, there’re three text options that are ramdomised to present only one of the 3 texts to the respondent.
In analysing the data, I’d like to combine the responses to the matrix questions for all the texts (from the four blocks). As I said above, all the questions are the same, only the texts evaluated change. Is there a way to combine the responses of the matrix questions for all blocks for analysis? I'd like to do this because I intend to make correlations between demographic data and the way texts were evaluated in general. Many thanks!
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Best answer by Kate 23 July 2019, 19:22

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I would venture a guess and say that this is going to be most easily accomplished in whatever post-collection analysis platform you are using (Excel, SPSS, etc.).

That being said: you could use math operations to add up questions answers and store the data it as embedded data.
https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/editing-questions/piped-text/math-operations/

Depending upon your use case, scoring might work as well:
https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-tools/scoring/

You can use math operations on any piped data- question answers, question recodes, or scoring data. So some combination should do the trick for you!
Thanks so much, Kate! Both suggestions were quite useful.

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