Collect survey responses based on Manual Headcount

You can collect survey responses based on Manual Headcount. Responses collected using Manual Headcount are analysed from the same places you analyse other types of survey response.

Dictionary

  • a Manual Headcount is a number you type directly into Makerble without needing to select the individual contacts whom those numbers relate to.

  • It’s useful for recording approximate amounts, rough numbers or figures you have calculated elsewhere.

 

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Introduction

What it looks like

When to use it

At a large in-person event

  • You are holding an event and use a poll within the event to get people’s responses

  • People put their hands up to answer each question and you manually count the number of responses

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  • You don’t have people’s individual responses but you do know the number of people who chose each Answer Choice to each question

  • With Manual Headcount you can enter the number of people who responded to each Answer Choice of each question

  • You could also include the breakdown by gender, ethnicity or any of your demographic fields

When you want to analyse ‘already-totalled’ survey results

  • Let’s say that you have an external partner or colleague who has collected survey results on paper or using another tool, i.e. the surveys were not collected on Makerble

  • If that person has already summarised the survey responses so that there are total numbers of responses to each question (rather than providing you with itemised responses to each question, in other words: each respondent’s answer to each question)…

  • …you can analyse those ‘already-totalled’ survey results on Makerble by keying them in as Manual Headcount

How to do it

To enter Manual Headcount yourself

  1. Go to the Survey Campaign page for the survey on your project

  2. You arrive on the Collect Responses tab

  3. Click the yellow Add Manual Headcount button

  4. You arrive on the Complete Survey page in Manual Aggregate mode

  5. You can enter Manual Headcount into each Answer Choice box for each question

  6. Scroll to the bottom and press Publish

To collect Manual Headcount survey responses from anyone with the link

  1. Go to the Survey Campaign page for the survey on your project

  2. You arrive on the Collect Responses tab

  3. If you as a signed-in-user want to enter Manual Headcount, click the yellow Add Manual Headcount button

  4. If you want to invite anyone with the link to enter Manual Headcount, click the Share link button below the pink Manual Headcount from anyone with the link icon

  5. If waves are enabled on your survey, select the wave, then copy the link

 

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