 Let's imagine you want to include an other category in a list of choices for answers on an item on a survey. Here's an example item from a satisfaction survey for customers of a central lab. From what service were you referred? And the choices are primary care, cancer center, women's hospital, occupational clinic, and other. Let's say the survey respondent puts other as the answer. Is that good enough for you to just know that it's other? Or do you want them to tell you what it actually is? If you want to collect the other description, you will have to program your online survey that way. Here we are at this item in SurveyMonkey. Let's look at the programming. See here are all the top choices, but now let's scroll down. See SurveyMonkey has an option to choose add an other choice. This automatically will add a check box as well as a text box to collect the description. Want to learn more about designing and programming online surveys? Take my free online course, Understanding Research Forms, Surveys, and Instruments. The link is in the description.