Different response types

Response Type

Learn the Two Response Types

For your experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment surveys, you can choose to allow participants to skip questions, prompt them to respond, or force a response before moving to the next question. You can do this at two levels:
  1. Question level: you can choose the response type depending on the question you are asking
  2. Survey level: you apply the same response type across all the questions in the survey

Question Level

1. By default, participants will be able to skip responding to questions on the survey. This can be seen in the "Response Type" option of "Allow Skipping" that is toggled on. 

2. At times, sensitive questions may be asked and you want to give participants the freedom to not respond. At the same time, you would like to prompt them to respond in case they missed the question. In this scenario, you may wish to select "Request Response".

3. There may be occasions when a response to a question is required for your experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment survey. In this scenario, you can toggle "Forced Response" for the question. This will ensure that participants have to respond to the question before moving to the next question.
Response types at a question level

Survey Level

To apply the same response type to all questions in the survey, you should go to survey "Options" which can be found in the dotted logo.
Survey builder settings button


You can select the desired response type from the "Survey Response Type" options. This response type will apply to all existing questions in the survey and new questions that are created.
Response types at a survey level






    • Related Articles

    • Exporting participants' responses

      How to Export Participants' Responses One of the most exciting parts of conducting experience samplings, or ecological momentary assessments, is downloading your participant's responses. In ExpiWell, you can download your data at any time. VIDEO ...

    • Free Basic Version

      Discover the benefits of our Basic Free Version on ExpiWell In ExpiWell, you can conduct your Ecological Momentary Assessment, or Experience Sampling Method for FREE. VIDEO TUTORIAL Get Started After signing up for a FREE Basic account on ExpiWell, ...

    • Types of Question Formats for EMA and ESM

      13 Types of Questions There are several different types of questions that can be created in a survey. 1. Multiple Choice Format Question This enables participants to select one choice among multiple different choices. This is also often used for ...

    • Answer Piping

      Answer Piping is a feature that streamlines survey flow by allowing you to insert (pipe) responses from previous questions into subsequent questions on later pages within the survey. This functionality enhances the survey experience by personalizing ...

    • Ways to Group Questions for ESM and EMA

      Two Ways to Group Questions For more complex survey structure in experience sampling method (ESM) and ecological momentary assessments (EMA), surveys can be organized into different types of question blocks. Within these question blocks, researchers ...