Using multiple surveys in the same project
One of the power features of Project Workspace Areas is the ability to have multiple surveys within the same project that can be treated as a combined set for monitoring and reporting.
A simple example is for international projects, where there are versions of the questionnaire in different languages.
By including the different language versions in the same project area, despite them all having separate URLs and different questionnaires by language, they can be monitored and then reported as a group because of the way that Cxoice handles data as a data stream.
What this means is that variable Q1 would be treated the same for all versions of the questionnaire and in reporting can be grouped with other Q1s from the alternative language versions. The surveys are still individual and separate, but can be combined when monitoring and extracting data making it easy to run large or complex studies.
Using multiple panels
A second common example is where a project draws on multiple panel providers for the sample. In this case the questionnaire is exactly the same for each panel provider, but each exists as a separate survey – one for each panel.
For instance, if you are targeting different countries – whether they are all English speaking, or not. Alternatively, where the target audience is quite small, such as a specialist B2B audience, and a single panel would not have sufficient contacts on its own.
By having multiple versions of the same survey in the same project workspace area this allows each panel to be set up according to the links and ID requirements for the panel.
For monitoring purposes (see later), Cxoice allows a ‘Combined View’ for monitoring across all the live surveys in the project, including counts, quotas and data views. This is addition to monitor views for individual survey.
The Combined View makes it easier for data quality control and to assess the performance of the different panel providers.
In addition, quotas can be set across the panel providers, or per survey.
In addition, with panel-based surveys, you can provide a panel log-in - this works at a survey level, not a project level - so the panel provider can monitor counts of attempts and completes, but only for the survey for their panel.
Trackers and repeating surveys in the same project
And a third example is where surveys are done in waves based on time, with a Wave 1 questionnaire, followed by Wave 2 and Wave 3 and so on. Each individual survey can be run separately, but for reporting the data is easily pooled together to establish trends or for dashboards.
