The Description field

In ActivityInfo forms which constitutes different sectors, the questions can have an additional description field which is meant to give extra details about the questions.

The description field is not mandatory, so it is optional, but it may help users filling out the form easily and eliminate potential confusions if they are leading the users enough.

Do some questions with the extra description field have better response quality than the questions which do not have it?

Looking at the table containing sector name, question and description fields and so on others:

We see in the plot above that the response word counts per sector and colored if a response has a description field or not. Having a description field or not is calculated as that a description field has a minimum one word.

The responses with the longest word counts are the ones with description. Nevertheless, it is not so easy to see a clear trend that there’s a correlation between response word count and description fields. Interestingly, the sector Protección_VBG has no description fields at all in their sectors.