There are 3 approaches two ways to having several versions ‘versions’ of a survey:
Single Survey (these use Core Questions ({Waves})
Separate Surveys (these use Reusable Questions and Bespoke Questions)
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Core Questions (Waves) is the recommended method for Longitudinal surveys and Tailoring surveys to specific projects |
What
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we mean by ‘versions’ of a survey?
It refers to when you want to ask the same or similar people, the same or similar questions, potentially but not necessarily at different points in time.
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A key factor to determine which approach is best for you is: do you want to be able to aggregate results and connect results from across the different versions of the survey, in spite of the differences in questions across each version?
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Comparison
FUNCTIONALITY | SINGLE SURVEY | SEPARATE SURVEYS | ||||
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Core Questions (Waves) | methodReusable Questions | method Bespoke Questions | method||||
How it works | Tailor the wording of a survey question for specific projects | |||||
CONTENT CREATION | ||||||
1 | Several | Several | ||||
1 per quantifiable question | 1 per quantifiable question | Several per quantifiable question because you need 1 per quantifiable question | ||||
1 per qualitative question | 1 per qualitative question | 1 per qualitative question | ||||
SURVEY EDITING | ||||||
Remove certain quantifiable questions from different versions | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Change the wording of certain quantifiable questions in different versions | Yes | No | Yes | |||
Ability to change the wording of certain qualitative questions in different versions (using Custom Fields) e.g. Open Text questions | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
ANALYSIS: Connecting Results from across different versions (e.g. for Longitudinal Surveys) | ||||||
Yes | Yes | No - unless all of your quantifiable questions are worded identically in each version (because they use the same Metric) | ||||
Yes | Yes | No - unless all of your quantifiable questions are worded identically in each version (because they use the same Metric) | ||||
ANALYSIS: Aggregating Results from across different versions | ||||||
Use Progress Boards and Progress Panels to calculate Totals | Yes | Yes | No - unless all of your quantifiable questions are worded identically in each version (because they use the same Metric) | |||
Series Analysis to connect results from across different versions | Yes | No | No | |||
/wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/26017793 to connect results from across versions | Yes | No | No | |||