Hi,

I am fairly new with the LimeSurvey and I couldn't find a proper solution for the problem I am facing right now.

I want to limit the number of participants based on some conditions and thus I used Quota feature of the limesurvey. According to the manual, if I add two answers from the same question it will sum up the participants for both answers. Yet, it does not do so in my case.

I have a question in which I ask participants to enter their date of birth. Based on their answer, it automatically shows their age group in the next question, and they click on that group to choose that age group. I have six groups, 16-, 16-18, 19-29, 30-49, 50-65 and 65+. I want survey to be ended when I reach 44 participants who selected 19-29 and 30-49. Therefore, I defined my quota for Q8 (code of my question) with both answers. However, when I add the second answer, the quota counts automatically 0, even though I have 4 people who selected 19-29. To the best of my knowledge, it still needs to show 4 even though there is no one that chose 30-49.

My question is, what am I doing wrong with the quota or question?

PS. I hope I have opened this topic under the right section. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you.



PS2: I added images which show after adding a second answer from the same question number of completed participants decrease.

What is you LimeSurvey version please ?


I check on last 3.X : seems to work like a charm

Hi, it's 3.23.4

As Denis,
it works as expected.

So it seems to be on your side.
Send an lss export.

Joffm

Here it is.

Hi,
where is your "problematic" quota?
Nowhere in your 230 quotas there is what you showed us before.

And why is Q8 a question of type "multiple".
Usually you calculate age brackets by an equation which you can use in a quota as well.

Joffm

And when sending an lss export, please include only the relevant questions.
Most of us don't speak Turkish, so it's really difficult to test.

Hi again,

Q8 is the problematic question along with A3 whenever I create a quota as
A3
Q8
Q8

as I presented in the images above, it does not work. Quotas are not there, because they did not work and I had to make quotas with only one selections.

Q8 is multiple because it follows another question in which we collect participants date of birth, based on that Q8 only shows the choice that falls into the relevant age bracket. Let's say, if you were born in 1990, you can only choose 30-49 bracket because it only shows that choice.

Let's say, if you were born in 1990, you can only choose 30-49 bracket because it only shows that choice.

Again I ask "Why don't you calculate the bracket by an equation?"

Joffm

Good question,

I will try this, but I will still be curious why it does not work the way it is right now.