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You can tailor the wording of a survey question for specific projects.

  • There are two methods:

    • Originals (uses several surveys)

    • Personalised Wording using Waves (uses a single survey)

  • The way you tailor the question depends on the type of question it is, i.e. whether it is a Field-based question or a Multiple Choice question

  • If the questions you want to tailor are across both types, you need to use the Originals method

Summary of the methods

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?

Types of question to tailor

Method(s) you can use

For the Multiple Choice questions: can Distance Travelled be automatically aggregated and analysed across the projects?

Field based questions only

  • Originals

  • or Waves

N/A

Multiple Choice questions only

Waves

Yes

Multiple Choice questions only

Originals

No

Both Field and Metric based questions

  • Originals

  • or Waves

No

Using the Originals method

For sections and text, date, time or file upload questions

If each project will have its own version of a question, each project will need to have its own copy of the survey.

  1. Copy your original survey

  2. Add the copied version to the specific project(s) that you want to receive this tailored version of a question

  3. Go to the Manage Fields page and edit the question’s wording for each version of the survey

For Multiple Choice questions

  1. Turn on Edit Mode for the survey

  2. Press Edit next to the Multiple Choice question you want to tailor

  3. A popup launches

  4. Select Only on this survey rather than “All”

  5. In the Name field: adjust the wording of the question and press Save.

    1. But if the wording you want to use for the question is too long. Come up with an abbreviated version of the question name and then follow these steps to add custom wording to this question

Using the Personalised Wording with Waves method

Refer to Waves - manage longitudinal surveys for a detailed explanation

  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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