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Drop-outs: where do participants leave my study?

  • May 3, 2024
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Hello,

I am recruiting participants via Prolific for my experimental study on Qualtrics. A relatively high percentage of participants drop-out, resulting in an unequal division between my Control and Experimental group. Is there a way on Qualtrics to see where these participants dropped-out in my study (e.g. in which block/page)?

Best answer by b0bke

Many thanks for the quick support, this is exactly what I am looking for!

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  • May 3, 2024

Hi @b0bke You can view the full response of the respondent in the data analysis which will tell you which was the last question answered ultimately leading to view ‘where the drop outs happened’.

 


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  • May 3, 2024

Many thanks for the quick support, this is exactly what I am looking for!


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  • May 13, 2026

Apologies for necroposting, but the above is an example of how to do this, manually, for each response and only on the Qualtrics platform, without an actual field in the data to record where they last stopped.

If I’m trying to do an abandonment analysis and show where MOST people drop out of a survey (not where 1 person dropped out), out 500+ responses, this is not at all realistic. So how would I go about doing this after survey close?

While responses are in the In Progress tab, I can view their “last question answered” as a field. Why does this become unavailable once the responses are closed, even though they aren’t at 100% progress? And how can I recreate it easily, short of me taking my own survey and abandoning to see in Qualtrics what progress % a particular last-answered question reflects?


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If they are mandatory questions, perhaps you can try to filter for empty values from the last column of your exported file to see the number of empty records, and then the second last column, and so on.