There are 2 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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Waves are recommended 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.
The characteristics of the different ‘versions’ of a survey might be as follows:
Some questions are the same
Some questions are worded differently
Some questions are removed
Some questions don’t appearare new
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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
Surveys you need to create
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FUNCTIONALITY |
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Waves approach
Separate Surveys approach
SINGLE SURVEY | SEPARATE SURVEYS | ||
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Core Questions (Waves) | Reusable Questions | Bespoke Questions | |
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 |
Custom Fields you need to create
1 per qualitative question
No - unless all of your quantifiable questions are worded identically in each version (because they use the same Metric) |
Metrics you need to create
1 per quantifiable question
Several per quantifiable question because you need 1 per quantifiable question
Ability to change the wording of certain qualitative questions in different versions (using Custom Fields) e.g. Open Text questions
Yes
Yes
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 |