Closed Ended Questions in Research

Specific Types of Closed Ended Questions:

1. Cafeteria questions - special type of multiple-choice question requires full expressions response of a position on a topic. It is a list of all possible answers to each close-ended question from the survey or an interview questionnaire.
   Example: People have different opinions about family planning. Which of the following statements best represents your point of view.
2. Dichotomous questions - requires one answer from only two choices such as yes or no; female or male. Example: Have you ever been hospitalized.
3. Rank-order questions - asking the respondents to make use of ranking from 1-10 or from the most important to least important.
4. Checklist - It is a two dimensional arrangement in which a series of questions is listed along one dimension and the respondents require to put a check on it.
5. Multiple-choice questions - a question with more than one possible answer. An example of such question can be one about all brands of products which the respondent uses.
6. Forced-choice questions - require respondents to choose between two statements that represent polar positions or characteristics.
7. Ranking questions - a scale point can mean different things for different respondents; respondents often rate everything as preferred or important. It is typically bipolar, it asks the respondents to evaluate something along an ordered dimension. Example: On the scale of 1 to 10, where 1 means the extremely disagree and 10 means extremely agree, "how satisfied are you in Our president's leadership in the Philippines?"
8. Calendar questions - used to obtain retrospective information about the chronology of different events and activities in people's lives.
9. Visual Analogue scales (VAS) - are used to measure subjective experiences such as pain, nausea, etc.