@jjsooner wrote: It's multiple choice, multiple select survey. What you described will not happen.  Don't bet on that without confirming it. One of the survey data collection systems I worked with had options that when a question was multiple choice you could get the response in either of question appearance order or in response selection order. Considering that some questions in surveys will ask people to Rank items by importance/ need/ frequency of use and similar that option is likely available. The order of multiple response could be 1) question appearance order, 2) value order (alphabetic or numeric) or 3) response selection order that I have worked with or 4) multiple binary coded variables to indicate choice selected or not. Of the 4 options only 1 would be as you may be assuming.   We won't even go into the possibility of data edited by the collectors but prior to you receiving the data. ... View more