Naming Conventions for Question Codes¶
This section presents a suggestion on how to name codes that identify questions in LimeSurvey.
To make it easy the understand and manipulate data collected using questionnaires, we recommend to use a prefix in the code (identifier) of each question. The intention of this prefix is to inform the type of the data “collected” by the question. For example, for a question like “How old are you?”, intAge
would be a good code. The int
prefix indicates that the value for the age is an integer number.
The following list contains prefix suggestions for the most frequent types of responses:
All types of single choice question →
lst
All types of multiple choice questions →
mul
All types of text questions →
txt
Array (Numbers) →
int
ordec
Array (Text) →
txt
Other types of array →
lst
Date/Time →
dat
Equation →
`equ
Numerical input →
int
ordec
Multiple numerical input →
int
ordec
Yes/No →
yn
Other types of question →
txt