Designing a survey question with external csv files

Maybe this post discussed previously should be helpful:

At the same time, I would also advise you to use the select_one_from_file that is able to handle external csv files.

For details, please view our support article Select One or Many From External File Question Type. We also have some workarounds in our community:

A simple workaround of using select_one_from_file question type:

If you wish to use the cascading select with select_one_from_file question type: