Demographic Survey

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: December 09, 2014

Last Modified: March 29, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements a template for a Demographic Survey in the US.

Scoring

The template provides questions for:
- age
- gender
- ethnicity
- raceorigin
- education
- employmentstatus
- marital status
- household members
- household income
- region

All individual questions can be edited under section "QUESTIONS"
All surveyPage elements can be edited under section "SURVEYPAGES"
The survey can be edited under section "SURVEY"

Summary Data

File Name: demographics_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
pageInstructions The instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage
quitInstructions The instructions to quit the questionnaire
the quitcommand can be changed under DEFAULTS