Manage your longitudinal surveys using Waves

What are longitudinal surveys?

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

Create unlimited versions of the same survey

Longitudinal surveys on Makerble use Core Questions

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 on Makerble you choose whether to hide, edit or include each question in each wave’s version of the survey

How it works

Stage	How to do it
Step 1: Create a single survey containing your bank of questions Overview of the Survey Creation processPro Tip Your quantitative questions (numerical, multiple choice and checkbox) exist as Metrics that plug into Surveys, Progress Boards, your CRM, Automations and more. So when you name them, use succinct neutral terms such as Confidence to start a business given that you can customise the way they appear when displayed as a Question in each version of your survey.	Metrics versus Survey Questions: 3 key points to understand the difference between them Create a question while creating a survey Create a survey that contains questions that already exist
Step 2: Create a wave for each point in time Common ones are: Baseline Midline Endline	Add one or more Shared Waves to a survey
Step 3: Add those waves to a project’s survey campaign Dictionary A survey campaign is a survey on a project If you use the same survey on several projects, add the waves to the survey campaign for each project	Add a shared Wave to a survey campaign
Step 4: Customise the survey’s appearance on each wave This step is optional if you don’t want to hide or edit certain questions for each wave, you can leave them just as they are	Personalise the Wording of Survey Questions based on the Wave and Respondent Type
Step 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)	Select the wave when collecting longitudinal survey responses
Step 6: Analyse results 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	View survey results from a specific Wave Longitudinal survey analysis using Waves and Custom Tables Analyse data from Multiple Choice Trackers