Using Logic to End a Response

If your survey takes a typical funnel approach, with more general questions at the beginning followed by increasingly-specific questions, then you might encounter a situation in which the specificity of certain questions or branches is no longer relevant to all respondents. You can use [skip to exit] logic to fast-track these respondents out of the survey when they provide a response that indicates the subsequent questions won't be relevant to them. (There are other ways to achieve this using [show if], [hide if], and [group] logic, and variables, as well.) 

Another use for [skip to exit] logic would be if you want to exit respondents who aren't paying attention or answering thoughtfully. If you are sure you want to eject these respondents from continuing your survey, this logic can be placed on distractors, traps, or "red herring" answer options.

Note: this logic is not meant to replace screening questions, which will pre-screen respondents. Respondents who are exited anywhere in the survey outside of prequalification questions will still count toward your total completes as respondents are logged as completing the survey.

Within Question Text

If you place your [skip to exit] logic within the text of a question, it should be within the question that will trigger the skip, not after it. [skip to] logic processes after the question has been answered.

Q15. How often do you eat ice cream? [skip to exit if Q15A1]
 A1. never 
 A2. a few times per year
 A3. a few times per month
 A4. more than once per week

Within Answer Text

Here we will achieve the same result by placing the logic command within the answer that will end the respondent's survey experience.

Q15. How often do you eat ice cream? 
 A1. never [skip to exit]
 A2. a few times per year
 A3. a few times per month
 A4. more than once per week

Multiple Response Combinations

This example uses the answers to two questions in order to determine whether to exit the respondent. Because of the placement on Q16A1, this logic will process if the respondent selects "I do not enjoy eating ice cream" only if they previously indicated they "never" eat ice cream - at this point, it's clear that questions related to ice cream won't be relevant to this respondent.

Q15. How often do you eat ice cream? 
 A1. never 
 A2. a few times per year
 A3. a few times per month
 A4. more than once per week

Q16. Do you enjoy ice cream?
 A1. I do not enjoy eating ice cream. [skip to exit if Q15A1]
 A2. I am indifferent to eating ice cream.
 A3. I enjoy eating ice cream.

Note: Logic will only activate when the answer(s) it is placed on are selected; logic on unselected answers will not be processed.

As a slightly different approach, here we want the respondent to exit if they indicated they "never" eat ice cream and that they are either "indifferent to" or "do not like" ice cream. This version allows control of the survey flow based on the answer options they did not select, rather than those they did select.

Q15. How often do you eat ice cream? 
 A1. never 
 A2. a few times per year
 A3. a few times per month
 A4. more than once per week

Q16. Do you enjoy ice cream? [skip to exit if Q15A1 and not Q16A3]
 A1. I do not enjoy eating ice cream. 
 A2. I am indifferent to eating ice cream.
 A3. I enjoy eating ice cream.