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Using Carry Forward

Carry Forward allows you to ask additional questions about either choices that were selected or were not selected, or about all choices in previous question. This allows you to ask follow-up questions relevant to your respondents’ previous answers.

For example, after respondents have selected which summer festivals they have attended, you can ask them to rate the cleanliness of those festivals. Carry Forward will display only those festivals respondents indicated as having visited. Or, you could ask them to select the reasons why they had not attended certain festivals. Carry Forward will display only those festivals respondents indicated as not having visited.

NOTE: There must be a Page Break or New Question Block between the original question and the question using the Carried Forward responses.

To use Carry Forward:

1. Create the question in which you want to use Carry Forward
   NOTE: There must be a Page Break or New Question Block between the original question and the question using the Carried Forward responses.
   EXAMPLE: You previously provided a list of summer festivals and asked your respondents to select every one they have visited.
   
   Now, you want them to rate the cleanliness of the festivals they selected. Therefore, you can use Carry Forward in that question.
   

2. From the Advanced Question Options pull-down menu, select Carry Forward...
   
   NOTE: The Carry Forward options available will vary based on the question type it applies to.
   EXAMPLE: Since the cleanliness question is a Matrix question, select Carry Forward Statements...
   The Carry Forward pane appears at the bottom of the question.
   

3. From the from menu, select the question containing the responses that you want to Carry Forward
   RECOMMENDATION: Make the selection from this menu first. The options available in the Carry Forward pull-down menu will be based on your selection here.

4. From the Carry Forward menu, select the desired option
   EXAMPLE: To Carry Forward the festivals the respondents have visited, select Selected Choices.
   NOTE: With Selected Choices or Unselected Choices, the question appears to list all the possible answers, but once the respondents answer the previous question and arrive at this one, only the desired choices will appear.

5. In the Carry Forward pane, click DONE
   You have added Carry Forward coding to your survey.

6. Be sure to Test your survey to make sure that everything is working as it should