Hi all,
Can't remember if this topic has been posted before, but it's come up a
couple times in my projects. I'm wondering if it's possible to only see the
month and year in a date field. Is there an appearance tag that would let
us do this?
For some questions, we just want participants to estimate the month and
year - having the day part of the field show up reduces data quality
because more participants just skip that question (the survey is being
self-administered). For example, one of the questions asks "When did you
last get tested for HIV?" It's unlikely that people will remember the exact
day and, indeed, we don't care about the day. But there is a big difference
between February 2010 and November 2010, so just having the year isn't
sufficient.
We could ask two separate questions (first the year, then the month), but
I'd rather just have the date field show up exactly as it is with no day.
Appreciate any suggestions.
So far as I know there is no widget that is capable of doing this. You could just have your enumerators ignore the day and do the same in your backend analysis.
you can add a hint (or use the question text) for users to put the 1st
if they don't remember the day, and to put january if they don't
remember the month. you can also put the separate questions on the
same screen to make things a little easier.
i've filed the issue at http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/issues/detail?id=423. we can do
this with an appearance attribute, but there are two issues to
address. first, android doesn't have a month only date widget and we'd
have to roll our own or use something non-standard (like http://code.google.com/p/android-dateslider/). second, javarosa
doesn't have a notion of an estimated date, so we have to discuss with
the community about the best way to represent that. any volunteers
want to take the lead on these two issues?
yaw
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:42, Matt Adams wrote:
> So far as I know there is no widget that is capable of doing this. You could just have your enumerators ignore the day and do the same in your backend analysis.
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month-year date Select a month and year only for the date.
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On Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8:45:08 AM UTC-6, Zak Kaufman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Can't remember if this topic has been posted before, but it's come up a
> couple times in my projects. I'm wondering if it's possible to only see the
> month and year in a date field. Is there an appearance tag that would let
> us do this?
>
> For some questions, we just want participants to estimate the month and
> year - having the day part of the field show up reduces data quality
> because more participants just skip that question (the survey is being
> self-administered). For example, one of the questions asks "When did you
> last get tested for HIV?" It's unlikely that people will remember the exact
> day and, indeed, we don't care about the day. But there is a big difference
> between February 2010 and November 2010, so just having the year isn't
> sufficient.
>
> We could ask two separate questions (first the year, then the month), but
> I'd rather just have the date field show up exactly as it is with no day.
> Appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Zak
>