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Hi all,

I'm brand new to qualtrics (started last week for uni) and I’m making a survey within which there are several check points for withdrawing from the survey (skipping to “end of survey”). Is there a way of flagging withdrawn responses so that when it comes to analysis they can be easily spotted (not having to trawl through each response) and subsequently deleted?

I was thinking embedded data around each checkpoint flagging the specific response to withdraw. Is this the best way?

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TomG
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Instead of skipping to ‘end of survey’ you can skip to ‘end of block’ then add survey flow logic to set an embedded data field before ending the survey. I usually set two embedded data fields: one for the final status (e.g., complete, terminate, overquota, etc.) and on for the screen-out reason (e.g., Q1-Age).


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I do something similar. I set up a check on a particular question or property (in this case, checking the device type the participant is using), then set an embedded data field based on that question, and if it doesn’t meet my criteria, then I send the participant to ‘end of survey.’

 

It’s useful for me to have different embedded data fields for each checkpoint (so here, I have a field ‘Device’ and every participant has a value, either ‘Computer’ or ‘Mobile’, and then during data analysis, I exclude everyone with the ‘Mobile’ value). But, you can certainly have a single embedded data field as ​@TomG suggested, ‘CompletionStatus’ or whatever, and if a participant fails a particular check, set that failure point as the value of ‘CompletionStatus.’ If the participant successfully makes it to the end of the survey, then you could set ‘CompletionStatus’ to ‘complete.’

 

 


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