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Tijevancasteren
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Multiple Response Survey question

Hello all,

I'm currently stuck on a project and I hope you guys could help me solve my problem. I have a database with 700 surveys, including some multiple response columns. My survey questions were Matrix-like questions.  Each statement has around 6 possible boxes to be ticked. This means I have a lot of columns with 1's and 0's, for each possible answer.  I want to group these answers somehow, and visualize them. Does anyone how to tackle these multiple response answers?

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Barmaleikin
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Hello,

 

Faced the same thing but not for such huge amount of surveys. You could:

  1. go to your Queries
  2. duplicate the Query
  3. Delete all columns except IDs and 1 Question with checkboxes
  4. Select all collumns with answers to Checkboxes
  5. Go to the Transform >> Unpivot columns
  6. After that filter last column to disable zeros
  7. Delete last column
  8. Close & Load

You will get a table with ID and Column, lets name it "Selected Checkboxes" 

Throw IDs and Relationship type "1 to many", plus "filter in both directions", you could use slicers/demographic data from the main table vs Checkboxes answers.

 

P.S. Doing in this way also gives you an opportunity to use Checkbox question as Slicer to the main table data.

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Barmaleikin
Advocate I
Advocate I

Hello,

 

Faced the same thing but not for such huge amount of surveys. You could:

  1. go to your Queries
  2. duplicate the Query
  3. Delete all columns except IDs and 1 Question with checkboxes
  4. Select all collumns with answers to Checkboxes
  5. Go to the Transform >> Unpivot columns
  6. After that filter last column to disable zeros
  7. Delete last column
  8. Close & Load

You will get a table with ID and Column, lets name it "Selected Checkboxes" 

Throw IDs and Relationship type "1 to many", plus "filter in both directions", you could use slicers/demographic data from the main table vs Checkboxes answers.

 

P.S. Doing in this way also gives you an opportunity to use Checkbox question as Slicer to the main table data.

Hello!!!

I'm very, very new at Power BI.

I'm working in a dashboard to show results of opinion surveys.

My database has 76.000 records, and I have one multiple answer question which has 22 categories, one per column..  

I don't know how to tabulate and chart this...

Could you please help me?

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