Manage your longitudinal surveys using Waves

What are longitudinal surveys?

Longitudinal Surveys ask the same or similar questions to the same or similar people at several points in time.

Create unlimited versions of the same survey

Longitudinal surveys on Makerble use Core Questions

• In the example below, there are two Core Questions:

  • Question 1: “Confidence to start a business”

  • Question 2: “Mental wellbeing”

• Each Core Question is asked at three points in time - at the Baseline, at the Midpoint and at the Endpoint

• Each of these points in time is defined as a Wave

• You can customise the appearance of each Core Question in each Wave of a survey

  • Specifically you can

    • Hide a Core Question in a particular Wave

    • Edit a Core Question (e.g. change the way it’s worded) in a particular Wave

    • Include a Core Question in a particular Wave

• This means that you no longer need to create separate surveys for each point in time that your survey is completed

• Instead you can simply create a single survey which has a Wave for each point in time

How it works

Stage	How to do it
Step 1: Create a single survey containing your Core Questions Pro 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.	Asks versus Questions (Metrics): 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 Midpoint Endpoint	Create several Shared Waves within a survey
Step 3: Add those waves to a project’s survey campaign note Dictionary A survey campaign is a survey on a project 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 each Core Question’s appearance in 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	Show, Hide and Reword the Questions in each Version of a Survey
Step 5: Select the wave when collecting survey responses You can collect wave-specific 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

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