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I am asking a demographic question on race. If the participant selects "biracial/multiracial" I would like a text box to appear that allows them to specify the races. Is this possible?
Also, is it possible to display the word "none" as a choice in scale response? Currently there's a space so it looks like " none" but I was wondering if there were other solutions. Thank you!
I am using MediaLab 2006.
Try doing a forum search on "specify"--I think you'll turn up some useful links. Here is a blurb from the manual on the section regarding scale responses:
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Finally, you may want a subject to specify their answer if, for example, you give the an "Other" option. Just include <specify> in the text label of the response option. This will not be displayed to the subject but will cause MediaLab to prompt subjects to enter a text response if they choose this option. For example, if you wanted the seventh option to be "other" and you wanted subjects to specify what "other" means, then enter other <specify> for the text label. The actual text response will be written to the data file instead of response number. If you choose to use this feature, you should select the [I]Write As Text[/I] option for the variable since a numeric variable in SPSS will not be able to store a text response.
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As far as using none as an option, I thought we addressed that at some point. I'll check into and post a solution if there is one, otherwise yes, you maybe have to go with " none" "none." "-none-" etc.