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Surveys that ask the same or similar questions to the same or similar people at several points in time are longitudinal.

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How it works

Info

Important Note

  • Now you no longer need to create separate surveys for each point in time that your survey is completed

  • Instead you only need to create one survey because you can can choose to hide or edit questions in particular versions of the survey

Stage

How to do it

Step 1: Create a single survey containing your master questions

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Step 2: Create a wave for each point in time

Common ones are:

  • Baseline

  • Midline

  • Endline

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Add one or more Shared Waves to a survey

Step

2

3: Add those waves to a project’s survey campaign

Dictionary

A survey campaign is a survey on a project

  • So if If you use the same survey on several projects, add the waves to the survey campaign for each project

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Add a shared Wave to a survey campaign

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3

4: Customise the survey’s appearance on each wave

Info

This is optional

  • if you don’t want to hide or edit certain questions for each wave, you can leave them just as they are

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Personalise the Wording of Survey Questions based on the Wave and Respondent Type

Step

4

5: Select the wave when collecting survey responses

You can collect survey responses from

  • Anyone with the public link

  • Coworkers (signed-in-users)

  • Contacts (whom you send a private link)

  • 360° Observers (you send a private link)

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Select the wave when collecting longitudinal survey responses

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5

6: Analyse results

Tip

Pro Tip

You can see which Wave a survey response is for to by looking at the label within the post on the Timeline or Newsfeed

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Analyse data from Multiple Choice Trackers

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