Manual Headcount
- Matt Kepple
Manual Headcount lets you record results without tagging individual contacts.
As a signed-in-user you can create a story (submit a survey response) that is based on a Manual Headcount.
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, figures you have calculated elsewhere or a number you are literally counting in the moment (e.g. counting the number of people who have raised their hand in response to a question).
There are two ways to do this:
Manual Headcount + Tagged Contacts: i.e. Add Manual Headcount alongside progress tagged to individual contacts
Manual Headcount only: Only add Manual Headcount, i.e. do not display the option to tag progress to individual contacts
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Watch the walkthrough video
When you might use Manual Headcount
At a large in-person event
To record answers to a Survey Question
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
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
To record how many people were there
You can enter the number of people who were there
You could also include the breakdown by gender, ethnicity or any of your demographic fields
How to analyse survey results that include a Manual Headcount
When analysing your survey results, you can switch between whether you want to see
Only the responses that were entered as Manual Headcount
Only the responses from tagged contacts (i.e. when responses are recorded against individual contacts)
Both - combined results from both tagged contacts and Manual Headcount
Use the toggle to switch between the views