Exhaustive
Exhaustive (also exhaustive : according to Duden also detailed, detailed, thorough ) is a conceptual relationship requirement for answer options as a pair of terms with disjoint in the questionnaire construction and question formulation . A question is formulated exhaustively if each respondent can assign himself to at least one answer option.
Examples
Example of a non-exhaustive formulation of a question
What is your gross monthly salary?
- a) more than 1000 up to and including 2000 euros
- b) more than 2000 up to and including 5000 euros
Respondents with no earnings or less than 1000 euros and respondents with earnings over 5000 euros cannot answer the question.
Example of an exhaustive question formulation
What is your gross monthly salary?
- a) a maximum of 1000 euros
- b) more than 1000 up to and including 2000 euros
- c) more than 2000 up to and including 5000 euros
- d) more than 5000 euros
All respondents can answer the question.
For filter questions , for example, it is important to use exhaustive question wording .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden
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- ↑ Quantitative Social Research: An Introduction by Dietmar Paier, pp. 54f.
- ↑ Test methodology and questionnaire construction - measurement method basics by Alex Sauer, Christian Spring p. 27f.