A question requests information from a respondent and the Response Domain is the format in which that information is provided. In Archivist responses to questions are grouped into four types of response domain; Text answers, Numeric answers, Date and time answers and Code lists.Most questions have a single response domain. Questions with more than one answer type e.g. a code list with a space for writing text, is input as a mixed response domain.
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Code lists are used when a question requests the respondent to choose from a multiple choice list. See Code Lists for more information.