Stop

A Stop node in the survey will end the interview. This is mainly used for screening-purposes, and to end the interview at various places in the routing.

Figure 1 - The Stop node’s details page

• Exclude Translation - check to exclude the node from the translator interface. This allows you to hide nodes that are used for internal programming purposes from the translators in Forsta Translator.
• Interview status after stop code - select the appropriate code to set on the Stop node. The options are:
• Complete - the web interview is to be considered a completed interview. The respondent data status is set to "Complete", and the end time of the interview is registered.
• Screened - use this status-code to mark the interview as "Incomplete due to screening". The respondent data status is set to "Screened" and the end time is set.
• Quota full - the interview is stopped for a certain group of respondents as the quota for that group is full .

Note: If the CATI channel is selected for the survey, an additional option becomes available.

• No change - allows for Stop nodes to be issued that do not change the current Forsta Status value. In a CATI interview this is essential as the Extended status codes are used to classify call outcomes, for example No reply, Busy, appointment etc. In the Forsta Status list these are all "Incomplete". The "No change" option therefore allows the status to be left "as-is" - Incomplete. When operating in a multimode context the "No change" value is applicable to ALL modes. If the CATI mode is disabled for the survey, then the value is automatically changed to "Complete".
• Theme - the themes available to the survey are listed in the drop-down list. For the Theme setting to be applied, you must specify your own title and text in the appropriate fields.
• Extended Status - available only when CATI is selected. This allows the 'stop' status to be defined more accurately, and is intended primarily for use with CATI interviews that store the outcome of the call for the interview record. The extended status is a numeric value corresponding to the 'Extended status' list within the CATI Supervisor. Refer to the CATI Supervisor's documentation for further details.

The Stop node can also be used at the end of the survey if you want to customize the last survey page instead of using the system-generated "Thank you" page.

The title and the status set on the stop node will be displayed in the survey in the same ways as question IDs and titles are displayed. The message presented to the respondent can be presented in the selected language if it is translated in the node fields.