Array Dual Scale

Array Dual Scale

Overview

The Array Dual Scale is a specialized question format in LimeSurvey that provides two scales of answer options for each sub-question. Users can set a heading for each scale from the question display options.

Click the + button in the top bar and choose Array dual scale from the Array group.

Display Options

The question type supports two presentation formats:

  1. Standard radio button format - displaying side-by-side scale options
  2. Dropdown format - enabled via a question attribute

Related Question Types

LimeSurvey offers several related array-based question formats:

  • Array (Point choice) - Matrix format with sub-questions and a point scale
  • Array (Texts) - Text input variant
  • Array (Numbers) - Numeric input variant
  • Array by column - Array with sub-questions and answers transposed

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