Responses & statistics

Responses summary

The following section of LimeSurvey focuses on responses and statistics creation. Once accessed, the summary page is displayed by default:

The first table is called "Response summary" and it displays the following general data:

• Full responses - the number of surveys submitted by your respondents (by clicking the "Submit" button located on the last page of your survey

• Incomplete responses - the number of surveys that have not been completely filled out by your respondents

If we take a look into the Responses table, the incomplete answers are response records with no submission date. Such a record can occur when a participant uses the 'resume later' function or when an operator uses the data entry facility to fill out a survey without submitting the answer, or when a participant fails to complete the survey because he/she just left.

• Total responses - the aggregated number of complete/full and incomplete responses

If you make use of the survey participants option, then a summary of the survey participants-related data is displayed on this page below the "Response summary" table:

• Total invitations sent - the number of invitations sent to your participants from the survey participants table

• Total surveys completed - it shows the number of surveys that have been completed by your survey participants who have been allocated a token code

• Total with no unique token - it displays the number of survey participants without an assigned token code

• Total records - the number of survey participants from the survey participants table

Toolbar options

The following options are displayed on the top toolbar:

• Summary - the page you land on after clicking on the Responses & statistics button

• Responses - redirects you to the survey response table

• Data entry - to be used to manually introduce responses into the survey response table, use this function. This is mainly used when survey responses were collected offline

• Statistics - provides simple and complex statistics, as well as the possibility to export your data outside LimeSurvey
  • Statistics - simple mode - it makes use of the in-built statistics function to generate simple graphs and charts
  • Statistics - expert mode - it allows you do select certain data to be displayed in the statistics. In the case in which the in-build expert mode is not sufficient for your needs, you can export the data in other formats to further analyse it by using other statistics-specialized software

• Timing statistics - if timings is enabled, the timing statistics option will be shown in the toolbar. It displays time-related statistics such as the total time spent by your respondents filling out the survey, as well as each question group and question

• Export responses - used to export survey responses

• Import responses - used to import responses gathered in other surveys

• View saved but not submitted responses - under certain conditions users can resume later the survey to finish filling it in. The respective answers can be seen by you with the help of this function

• Iterate survey - used to launch the same survey to the same set of survey participants to analyse trends

• Batch deletion - use this function to delete answers in batch