Formulate and translate your own questions.

In this article we will review the following features of the GAIS question framework:

- 1) Formulate your own questions in GAIS - in Danish and other languages

- 2) Do you want to ask questions in languages other than your primary one?

- 3) Conditional questions

1) Formulate your own questions in GAIS

In all GAIS survey types it is possible to add your own questions to the employees. When you create a survey, go to Questions -> Extra Questions -> Add Question. 

You should also consider whether you want the questions to be presented before or after the GAIS questions in the survey.

Primary Language

When you click on additional questions, first consider your primary language for the question. The system will automatically display questions in that language, unless you translate it yourself.

Formulate your own questions

What type of question do you want to ask? In GAIS we offer three types:

• Multiple choice
• Scaling from 0 to 10
• Free text

To get the most useful infomation out of your own questions, we recommend that you only ask a single matter; for example: "What do you think about management's strategic direction?" and not: "What do you think about your colleagues' and management's attitude towards to the strategic direction?". 

Multiple choice

When using multiple choice questions you must define the answers, which can be "yes", "no", "don't know", etc. You do this by entering the option in the "Add response options" field and pressing "Add". The list of options should be mutually exclusive and exhaustive.

0-10 scale

When using 0-10 scale questions, you must define the answer options, such as "very much", "highly", "not at all", etc. Scale questions are used when you want more nuances in the answer than for example, just "yes" or "no". 

The 0-10 scale is a common method in happiness research, which GAIS relies on.

Free text

When you use free text questions, you can ask more open-ended questions that can be answered in a comment.

2) Do you want to ask questions in languages other than your primary language?

When you formulate your own questions, we are unable to translate them automatically as we do not have your questions in our database. You must therefore ensure that the following is in order: 

A) Make sure that the appropriate language is in the language column of your data file:

B) First ask the question in your primary language:

C) Go thought the relevant language tabs, translate the question into each language and check the box next to each flag:

The process must be repeated for each language tab. If not checked, the question will be asked in the selected primary language - in this case English.

3) Conditional questions

In GAIS it is possible to create conditional questions. This is a type of question that becomes available depending on the answer to previous questions, and can be used if you want to further examine an answer in more detail. The function is activated by creating a question such as the one below with the answer options "yes" and "no".

We are not interested in more knowledge if the answer is "No", but we would like to examine further if the answer is "Yes". Therefore, a follow-up conditional question is needed. First, we write the question itself:

We now have both the primary question and the conditional question under "Extra questions" and now click on the tab marked yellow below:

Here we introduce the condition, which means that if the user answers "Yes" to the first question, it opens up the possibility of asking the more detailed conditional question:

From the users point, it will appear as such:

You are now ready to create your questions, translate them and use conditional questions!