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Skip Logic

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About Skip Logic

Skip logic allows you to send respondents to a future point in the survey based on how they answer a question. For instance, if a respondent indicates that they don’t agree to your survey’s consent form, they could immediately be skipped to the end of the survey. Please note that skip logic can only be used to send respondents forward in the survey, not backward.

Qtip: For more advanced logic such as including multiple AND/OR statements, consider using display logic or branch logic.

For additional information regarding using logic in general, visit our using logic support page.

Adding Skip Logic

Select the question to which you want to add skip logic.

selecting a question in the survey builder and then choosing skip logic in question behavior

In the Question behavior section of the survey builder, select Skip logic.

Use the first dropdown menu to specify where respondents who skip ahead should be sent. You can skip the respondent to future questions within the current block, to the end of the current block, or to the end of the survey

Qtip: With skip logic, respondents can only be skipped forward to questions within the same block. If you’d like to skip respondents to another block, choose to skip them to End of Block and then use branch logic or display logic to get them to the right place from there.

Qtip: If you skip a respondent to the end of your survey, their end of survey experience will follow the default end of survey settings; if you have an end of survey element in your survey flow, these settings will be ignored in favor of the default settings from the builder.

In the second dropdown menu, select the answer choice to use in your logic.

In the third dropdown menu, specify how respondents are supposed to interact with this answer choice. For example, if the respondent selected the answer choice.

Click Confirm when finished.

If desired, repeat steps 2–6 to create additional skip logic statements. Each statement’s option menu will appear as a different color. Multiple skip logic statement are separated by an implicit “OR,” meaning the respondent needs to meet only one condition to be skipped.

a question with multiple skip logics; each logic is a different color

Qtip: Applying skip logic to a question will create an automatic page break after the question. If this is undesired, check out in-page display logic as another option.

Qtip: Skipping a participant to the end of your survey with skip logic will record their survey response. For more information on how to delete such responses, see our screen-out management page.

Additional Skip Logic Options

After adding skip logic to a question, you can select the skip logic dropdown menu to the right of the logic for more options.

the skip logic options dropdown is found by clicking the three dots to the right of a skip logic

The following options are available:

Edit conditions: Reopens your skip logic statement, allowing you to make changes.
Advanced options: Allows you to set up the skip logic to be ignored until a certain quota is met. When selecting this option, an Include Quota dropdown menu will appear for you to select the desired quota.

Qtip: No need to use this option if you are skipping participants to the end of the survey once the quota is full. For this, go to the quota setup screen and use the default action End Current Survey.
Go to skip destination: Takes you to the survey question where respondents will be sent when they skip ahead. This option is only available when skipping respondents to a future question.
Remove: Deletes the skip logic.

Skip Logic in Different Project Types

This type of question behavior is available in many different types of projects. The options described on this page are available in:

For Conjoint and MaxDiff, see this support page.

FAQs

Why are my page breaks being ignored?

There are several settings that override page breaks:

Questions per Page set in the Look and feel
Question randomization set up in a block
Skip logic, display logic, and carry forward (all 3 by default will insert a page break)

I am having trouble setting up logic to display a question or set of questions to a specific subset of my respondents.

The three types of logic available in Qualtrics are display logic, branch logic, and skip logic. Each of them serve a unique purpose; understanding which type of logic to use enables you to customize each respondent’s survey experience. Display Logic displays or hides a question based on any information you already have about the current respondent. Branch Logic does the same but for blocks of questions or other Survey Flow elements. Finally, Skip Logic sends the respondent to a different part of the survey based on their answer to a specific question. For more details on how to set up your logic, check out our Using Logic support page.

I'm skipping respondents to the end of the survey, but why aren't they seeing the custom message I set?

Check that the end of survey message is set correctly in Survey Options. If you have custom messages set in your survey flow, consider having your skip logic send respondents to the end of the block instead of the end of the survey, and then using the survey flow to decide what messages the respondents should see.

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