Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to have a field that autocalculates its value depending on previous answers of the respondent.

Maybe something lika a hidden question that just calculates the value. In spss I calculate it like this:

COMPUTE index1 = 0 .
EXECUTE .
DO IF (e5=1 or e15=1 or e15=2) .
COMPUTE
index1 = 1 .
END IF .
EXECUTE .

COMPUTE index2 = 0 .
EXECUTE .
DO IF (index1=1 and (e7=1 or e7=2 or e7=3)) .
COMPUTE
index2 = 1 .
END IF .
EXECUTE .

Sinceraly
Adam

I'm not well versed in SPSS syntax, but it looks like you're trying to do this:

index1:
index2:
If so, create hidden Equation type questions for index1 and index2 and put the associated code in the question field. The values will be auto-updated as the user changes responses; and the resulting values will be stored to the database in variables index1 and index2.

Thank you, that seems to be exactly what i'm after!