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  • There are two methods for creating different versions of a survey

    • Single Survey (best Recommended and particularly useful for longitudinal research, e.g. pre & post)

    • Separate Surveys

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We recommend the Core Questions using Waves method as it gives you the most analytical capabilities

SINGLE SURVEY

SEPARATE SURVEYS

Core Questions using Waves

Reusable Questions

Bespoke Questions

Ability to view results from a single version of the survey

Using survey analytics, outcome charts, progress panels and Progress Boards

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ability to aggregate results from across the different versions of the survey

Distribution of Answers

Yes

Yes

No

Progress Panel

Yes

Yes

No

Album-level verdicts (where different projects use different versions of the survey)

Yes

No

No

Outcome Charts

Yes

No

No

Ability to connect results from across the different versions of the survey (e.g. a pre and post survey)

Distance Travelled

Yes

Yes

No

Distribution over Time

Yes

Yes

No

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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?

Reusable Questions

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Reusable Questions versus Core Questions (Waves)

  • When you use a Reusable Question you need to create several separate surveys and the question cannot be worded differently in different surveys.

  • When you use Core Questions (Waves) you only need to create a single survey and the same same question can be worded differently in different versions of that survey.

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  1. Reorder the survey questions

  2. Add skip logic

Now you're ready to collect survey responses.

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  1. Check that there is at least one Wave on each project that you want to tailor the question for. If there isn’t a Wave, create one. If there isn’t a spare wave, create one. (How to create a Wave)

  2. Go to the Personalised Wording page of the survey and follow the steps in this article which are outlined below:

    1. Select the project you want to tailor the question for

    2. Select the wave you want to save the tailored wording to

    3. Select the question you want to tailor

    4. Choose the Audience you want the tailoring to be applied to (typically this is Respondents or Members of the Public)

    5. Tailor the question for that Audience and press Save to close the popup

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