Hello community,I hope everyone is doing well during this weird time.I have already read kbobk092, drfreeman and kip_ferguson's question and it gave me a rough idea of what I have to do but I do not feel like their posts have answered my question or solved my issue to my fullest satisfaction, or maybe I did not completely understand the process? Anyway, here it goes:As part of my Master Thesis, I am doing a correlational research on relationship satisfaction & optimism/pessimism for which I will invite couples to participate. I have sent my ethics application to the board but it was rejected because of how I was planning to pair the participants and identify as a couple, there was a privacy issue about sharing/providing email addresses without consent for identification.My original idea was for participants to create a code word of their choice to simplify the identification process later on, e.g. partner A chooses the word "Australia2016" and then partner B would somehow (via a trigger?) receive the survey and put in this code word somewhere so that I can then later pair both participants according to their code word. I think the idea was great, because it meant complete anonymity, but my supervisor said this was too much burden for the participant.....As this is a global research, I will set up the questionnaire in Qualtrics and post it on Social Media etc. to recruit couples. I have read about creating individual IDs which I can do when I, of course, message my friends and ask for help, but given that I need to find more than 300+ couples, I will not be able to do that for everyone. I do not have much control over who answers these questionnaires once I post the ads, and do not think I will have the time to manually go on a search for partner B within my data set after partner A has answered the survey. I am trying to find a time efficient way that allows me to simplify the process.How can I pair participants without emailing every single partner A, and make sure it can be achieved by posting the advertisement only so I don't have to follow up hundreds of people?What I would like to achieve: Partner A clicks on the survey link -> completes survey -> nominates partner -> survey gets sent to partner B -> they fill out the questionnaire -> Qualtrics shows me paired participants / couplesAny help would be very much appreciated.Thank you in advance, I look forward to reading the responses.Best regards from Australia!

I don't know how to address the privacy issue you allude to, but if you are triggering the second survey using the 'Distribute survey' task (Actions tab) you can add the Response ID (and all survey responses too) from survey #1 as embedded data fields in survey #2.https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/actions-module/xm-directory-task/#SendingEmails

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