I am building a survey and asking the participants:
How often do you think about your online security?
The answers are:
- At least once every day
- At least once every week (and less than once every day)
- At least once every month (and less than every week)
- At least once every 6 months (and less than every month)
- Once a year
- I do not think about it at all
- Other (specify)
My questions are:
- Is "once a day" equivalent to "once every day"?
- Is the clarifications between circle brackets necessary? For example, in
At least once every week (and less than once every day)
The reason for me to add the sentence in the circle brackets is because since I mention "at least" once every week, this mean one or more times every week, which can be equal to once or more every day (so I want to be precise it is less than once every day). Does this make sense? Or otherwise, it can be removed? Because if the word "at least once every week" means the thing (the thinking in our question) occurs per week, then I think the between brackets clarification is not correct. Because the occurrence is not distributed among the week days, but happens once or more at one day every week?
EDIT: Also, do you see anything vague or incorrect in modifying the scale to:
- Every day
- Every week
- Every month
- Every 6 months
- Once a year
- I do not think about it at all
- Other (specify)
Because it was like this before, but someone asked me, how many times a week?