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Hi:) I have been searching all over the forum and saw a lot of helpful posts and answers, unfortunately, i still can't figure out my problem...

I would like to set quotas for following groups:
- language group: German, French and Italian
- sex: F, M
- Age group: a, b, c

which concludes to 18 groups:

DE x M x a
DE x M x b
DE x M x c

IT x M x a
IT x M x b
...
and so forth.

I have read the post(s) by the user Joffm, but i seem to be too unskilled in math to do the full equation with that many variables. If somebody could help me, i would be very grateful!!

thank you,
Anna

 i seem to be too unskilled in math

I do not believe this.
If you code
QCountry
1: German
2. French
3:: Italian

QSex
1: female
2: male

QAge
1: Age1
2: Age 2
3: Age 3

Now you see that there are three options of Age.
Each is combined with one of the Sex options.
1: 1-1
2: 1-2
3: 1-3
4: 2-1
5: 2-2
6: 2-3
Now the formula is obvious:
(QSex-1)*3+QAge
If you only say QSex*3+QAge, it doesn't really matter, but
the result starts at 4

And to add the country is the same 
For each country you have six option of Sex x Age
(QCountry-1)*6+(QSex-1)*3+QAge

Try in Excel and you will see.
 
Joffm

P.S.
I see "uzh".
So it isn't country, it is language.

P.P.S.
Und wenn Du mich schon zitierst, hättest Du auch im deutschen Teil fragen können. 

Wow, thank you so much!!! Joffm höchstpersönlich

Thank you for the explanations as well, now i understand it!

I tested all the combinations. There were three combinations, where it did not work:
DE-M-agecategory 1 
DE-M-agecategory 2 
DE-M-agecategory 3 

All the other combinations worked well and the right formula came out.

I have coded 
DE = 1 
M = 2
see the attachment below, the formula that was computed were 31, 32, 33 respectively.


I double- and triple checked these combinations. I don't know what to do, maybe you know what the problem might be?
For the agecategory, see the other attachment, but i think this one isn't the problem, because it always computed it correctly....


 

Hi, Anna,
better you send the lss export. There may be a small typo or so.

Joffm

thank you, here it is: 

I'm also testing the quotas right now, and it doesn't trigger with the DE-combinations (also x F), so maybe the problem is with the "DE"?

Hi,
1. Your equation "Qagecat" is not correct.
You do an assignment. This is used if you want to assign a value to a different question.
This is sufficient
{if(Qage < 18, 0, if(Qage <= 34, 1, if(Qage <= 54, 2, if(Qage <= 79, 3, 0))))}

2. Your agecat coding.
There are 4 categories (0,1,2,3), not three as in my example.
Now there are 8 ways to combine sex x age and 24 to combine all three

So you have to adapt the formula.

{(Qlanguage-1)*8+(Qsex-1)*4+Qagecat}
You see the factors (red, bold) always represent the number of following options.

This way you get codes from 0 to 23.
 

 
Best regards

Joffm