IRC is considering using Kobo for a survey in Pakistan. However, while
the sample unit is household, so most questions are asked on the basis
of household response, we need to include a household listing which
will record age, gender, and other individual specific data. In trying
to build the form in the form builder we have not been successful in
adding the household listing questions. Is anyone able to advise if
this is a possibility with Kobo?
Bobi,
It’s possible to have individual specific data, or repeating groups, these are supported by KoBoCollect, but the function has been temporarily removed from the KoBoForm builder while we work out some kinks.
The upcoming version of KoBoForm will support repeating groups, in the meantime, if you are trying to make a form at this moment, you can edit your XML to have a repeating group that looks like this:
Create a variable in the instance called “/data/household”
To add a few more details about the data structure of Groups. When editing your Instance, just treat the repeating section, in this case “Household”, as a sub-group under the instance. See below how the variables ‘gender’, ‘age’, and ‘name’ are between the open and closing ‘Household’ tags?
As discussed in New York, there is still a number of development that need to be done, so collaborating on identifying key priorities would be very useful. Similarly, once the code for the type of question you just described are coded, these could easily become templates that can be reused across surveys.
To add a few more details about the data structure of Groups. When editing your Instance, just treat the repeating section, in this case “Household”, as a sub-group under the instance. See below how the variables ‘gender’, ‘age’, and ‘name’ are between the open and closing ‘Household’ tags?
<Household>
<gender/>
<age/>
<name/>
</Household>
Your output data will reflect the same structure.
~Neil
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