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NIPO ODIN Version 5.17

*DUMMY

Purpose

Specifies a dummy question.

Syntax

*DUMMY

Description

This command specifies a dummy question. Dummy questions are, for example, closed questions that will be used to extract category texts from. If you do not mark these questions as dummy questions they would appear on the screen during the interview. *DUMMY prevents the question from being displayed. In earlier versions of ODIN it was necessary to specify dummy questions by using null-evaluating filters like *IF [ 1 = 2 ].

Example

*VARS num
*TEXTVARS txt
*QUESTION 1 *CODES L1

Gender

1: Male
2: Female

*QUESTION 2 *CODES L1 *DUMMY
1: wife
2: husband

*PUT num [Q1]
*PUT txt Q2,num
*QUESTION 3 *CODES L1

Do you have a *?txt?

1: Yes
2: No

In this example, question 2 will not be displayed during the interview. However, the text from this dummy question is used to display in the third question text.