Hi there,
I'm building a survey where I need to collect respondents' names temporarily. After the data collection part of the study is over, I would like to permanently delete the participants' names because we no longer need them. Is there a way to do this in Qualtrics? Something like deleting the responses to a particular question after a period of time? Ideally I do not want to download the data and delete it manually on my computer.
De-identifying data after a period of time
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+46https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/23744/de-identifying-data-after-a-period-of-timeYou can do this by running update response API in loop where you update the demographics by a blank or static text, on all survey responses.
It is a bit manual at the start but can be done.
Hope it helps!
+1Thank you Deepak! That sounds like it might work for me. Will that permanently delete the original responses everywhere? I'm not too familiar with how Qualtrics stores data, sorry.
+1https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/54731#Comment_54731Thank you -- Another follow-up question:
What if I wanted to replace the names with unique # identifiers? I'll have paired samples (two separate Qualtrics survey forms) and I need to be able to match the pairs without names. Is there a way to do this, or would it be too complicated? I am not familiar with the Qualtrics API.
+46https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/54742#Comment_54742Yes, it will be too complicated to do this you will have to have it as a static dataset and pull the information from there before triggering the API.
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