Manage your longitudinal surveys using Intervals

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What are longitudinal surveys?

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

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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”

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• 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 interval

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

  • Specifically you can

    • Hide a Core Question in a particular interval

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

    • Include a Core Question in a particular interval

• 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 interval for each point in time

How it works

Stage	How to do it

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.	Open The Survey Question & The Ask: 3 key points to understand the difference between themPreview Create a question while creating a surveyPreview Create a survey that contains questions that already existPreview
Step 2: Create a interval for each point in time Common ones are: Baseline Midpoint Endpoint	Open Create several Shared Intervals within a surveyPreview
Step 3: Add those intervals 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 intervals to the survey campaign for each project	Open Add a Shared Interval to a survey campaignPreview
Step 4: Customise each Core Question’s appearance in each interval This step is optional if you don’t want to hide or edit certain questions for each interval, you can leave them just as they are	Open Show, Hide and Reword the Questions in each Version of a Survey (Adjust When)Preview
Step 5: Select the interval when collecting survey responses You can collect interval-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)	Open Select the interval (wave) when collecting longitudinal survey responsesPreview
Step 6: Analyse results Pro Tip You can see which interval a survey response is for to by looking at the label within the post on the Timeline or Newsfeed	Open View survey results from a specific IntervalPreview   Open Longitudinal survey analysis using Intervals and Custom TablesPreview   Open Analyse data from Multiple Choice TrackersPreview

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