Hi Catherine 

If anybody gets part way through the questionnaire then abandons it, we will still get the results for the questions they did
answer. We could have an extra button at the bottom of each page which allows respondents the 'Save' their answers so far and
continue later, but this is usually only done for lengthy surveys: ours is very short. 

As it stands (or will after I've done some modifications), everybody should be able to answer every mandatory question, even if
it is 'Rather not say' or similar. Where an answer is optional it says so.  I could make all questions optional, and I know some
people might prefer this, but the vast majority of commercial/professional online questionnaires make most answers mandatory. This
guards against respondents inadvertently missing out an answer, and ensures that the responses provide as much data as possible. I
could add the option to mandatory questions 'Skip this question' which at least ensures it isn't inadvertently missed out. 

It's your survey really, Catherine, so you can choose which way to go:
(1) Leave as it is (my preference);
(2) Save and continue button;  
(3) All questions optional; 
(4) All mandatory questions have the option to 'Skip this question'.

Geoff
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>>> On 10/05/2010 at 10:14, "Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Geoff
> We talked about people being able to fill in part of the questionnaire ie
> not to complete a question or two if they didn't want to. Will this be
> possible?
> On the basis that we would rather have more questionnaires than less, even
> if some are incomplete?
> Thanks
> Catherine
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MmIT Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Geoff Butters
> Sent: 10 May 2010 09:21
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: Re: MMIT member draft survey launched
> 
> Thanks, Andrew. 
> 
> Q17/18 will be revised.
> 'Age' is a normal question and is usually compulsory as it is often useful
> to have at least a minimal amount of demographic
> information. Let's face it, anyone could put in wrong information for every
> question if they wanted to. I will add the option
> 'prefer not to say'.
> Will add Law Library.
> Can't think of better terminology than 'work with'.
> 
> Geoff