https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/ 2026-04-28T12:44:08+00:00 https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/ https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2021-05-19T19:33:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:clear-data?rev=1621452824&do=diff Deleting Pretest data SoSci Survey records every time the questionnaire is accessed - irrespective of whether this happened during field time or whether a filter was being tested. When accessing the questionnaire from the user interface (using the green or yellow arrow), this is recorded in the data set in the variable MODE. text/html 2024-04-22T14:21:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:clickworker?rev=1713795718&do=diff Clickworker With Clickworker, respondents have to enter a code at the end to confirm that they have completed the task (correctly). This should not always be the same code, otherwise there is a risk that confirmation codes will be shared via social media. text/html 2022-09-07T19:06:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:data-security-auth?rev=1662577616&do=diff Privacy sharing and pseudonymization The List of Contacts (Send Mailings) allows different privacy modes, including pseudonymous address entries. With pseudonymous address entries, it is not apparent to the project management which address entry belongs to which interview (CASE), but this assignment is stored internally on the survey server. text/html 2024-05-23T16:35:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:ethics?rev=1716482126&do=diff Informed consent, research ethics and compliance Research ethics and compliance (adherence to legal and institutional rules) have little to do with survey software to begin with. Nevertheless, it is an important aspect of surveys and SoSci Survey can make life easier at one point or another. text/html 2025-04-15T23:25:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:function-test?rev=1744759527&do=diff Technical Test Generally, SoSci Survey is a reliable platform. Nevertheless, errors can occur during the construction of the questionnaire, in the programming of filter questions, but also when software updates or new features are installed. It would be frustrating, if such errors lead to the loss of data. text/html 2024-04-23T08:19:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:hot-change?rev=1713860351&do=diff Change the Questionnaire During the Survey In an ideal world, a questionnaire is created, tested and then the survey can begin. Nevertheless, subsequent changes to the questionnaire cannot always be avoided completely -- whether it be correcting a spelling mistake, or an important answer or answer option is missing. text/html 2026-04-22T14:06:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:individual-urls?rev=1776866819&do=diff Personalized Links and Participation Codes You can provide a questionnaire either via a non-personalized, public link on the internet, or you can use personalized links. Public URL Any Person (or bot) who knows the link to the survey can access and complete it. text/html 2021-04-29T19:58:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:invitation?rev=1619726294&do=diff Optimize your E-Mail-Invitations Potential participants of a survey are often invited via email. Depending on the content of this invitation the response can differ largely. Tip: Keep the invitation mail short! Long texts raise the expectation of long and boring questionnaires and will drive away potential participants. text/html 2021-12-07T20:17:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mail-sending-csv?rev=1638908233&do=diff Import Mailing Times SoSci Survey allows to import individual mailing times for sending serial mails from a table. So you can specify in a table exactly which person or which subgroup should receive which serial mail at which time. Save such a table in CSV format and import the schedule under text/html 2023-12-10T20:18:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing-api?rev=1702239486&do=diff API access for personalized participation links The feature Send Invitations → API access allows the following functions: * To enter an e-mail addresses or other participant IDs from external software in the List of Contacts of the survey project. text/html 2024-04-21T18:25:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing-checklist?rev=1713723907&do=diff Checklist for Mailings This checklist is made to help you avoid mistakes when sending Mailings. The following aspects are required: * You have imported the e-mail adresses of the participants into the List of Contacts. * You have also imported your own e-mail address and the e-mail address of a colleague into the text/html 2021-05-20T20:21:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing-fields?rev=1621542089&do=diff Wildcards in Mailings In case you are sending mailings directly with SoSci Survey, you can use a couple of wildcards for personalisation purposes. Important:Do not enter the link to the questionnaire manually; use the wildcard %link% or %link.html% text/html 2023-01-13T10:53:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing-lost?rev=1673607182&do=diff Serial mails do not arrive When sending serial mails, it happens from time to time that single or all emails do not reach the recipient. This guide will help you to find the error. The general procedure for sending serial mail is as follows: * The serial mail dispatch is scheduled or manually triggered. text/html 2022-09-07T18:59:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing-spf?rev=1662577163&do=diff Serial Mails and SPF Entries If you want to send a serial mail, SoSci Survey may warn you about a “SPF record” for the address of the sender. SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework and means that it has been defined which mail servers are allowed to send e-mails with your sender address. text/html 2024-04-23T08:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing-teams?rev=1713861071&do=diff Team and Partner Interviews Sometimes you want to survey pairs/dyads or groups/teams. There are two designs here: * Attributable data records It is possible in the analysis here to assign the data records to a specific group -- e.g. if departments in a company are surveyed and results are to be shown per department. text/html 2021-03-29T12:07:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mailing?rev=1617019630&do=diff Send Mailings You have got a list of e-mail adresses and you want to invite the associated persons to a survey? In this case the mailing feature of SoSci Survey helps. You can find that function on the left side of the menu at Invitation Mailings. text/html 2025-05-02T06:47:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:mturk?rev=1746168449&do=diff Amazon MTurk You may want to recruit respondents using Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Warning: We must assume that worker IDs are personal data. That means that restrictions from the GDPR (see Personal Data) may apply. Therefore, if using individual codes or retrieving the worker ID, please make to check the procedure with your local data protection officier (DPO). text/html 2024-05-23T06:40:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:opt-in-live?rev=1716446407&do=diff Multi-Wave Surveys with Self-Recruited Respondents If you want to use the mailing feature for a multi-wave survey, you actually need the email addresses of the respondents in advance. Eventually, respondents will need to be invited to participate in a subsequent wave of surveys at some point. text/html 2021-05-24T13:05:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:panel-download?rev=1621861528&do=diff Download e-mail distribution lists The list of recipients for sending serial mails can be downloaded (.csv) via Invitation mailings → List of contacts → Manage adresses → Download Mailing List. CSV-datas can accessed via various applications for calculations (e.g. Excel, OpenOffice Calc, SPSS, text/html 2025-05-02T06:47:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:panels?rev=1746168472&do=diff Working with External Panel Providers If you recruit the participants of your survey through a panel provider, you have to work with IDs, backlinks, exit links and redirects. This section describes how to implement it with SoSci Survey elegantly. Abstract text/html 2026-03-15T08:46:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:participants?rev=1773564364&do=diff Finding participants If someone wants to take part in a survey, he or she needs to know the URL (web address) of the online questionnaire. The URL of your survey can be looked up at Creating and Designing the Questionnaire. You can find more details on this in the chapter: text/html 2022-11-01T19:29:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:pretest?rev=1667330976&do=diff Questionnaire Pretest A functioning questionnaire design does not guarantee that every participant understands the questions correctly. Therefore, the most important step to generate valid data is a pretest. Pretests often fall short, especially in online surveys. This accounts for a large part of the perceived poor data quality of online surveys used in studies.Therefore, how to perform a proper pretest is explained below. text/html 2021-05-24T14:44:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:privacy?rev=1621867499&do=diff Privacy Settings The standard setting of oFb only collects few meta data for each interview, such as the time and date when the interview started. This setting is suitable for most projects. If further data are needed for the analysis, you can activate their collection in text/html 2024-07-24T06:52:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:publish?rev=1721803920&do=diff Set the Survey Administration Period The survey period determines the period in which the questionnaire is accessible to participants. Enter a survey period in the Project settings (Survey project -> Project Settings) in the Publish Questionnaire tab to publish the questionnaire for the respondents (see also text/html 2025-06-10T19:22:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:quota-statistic?rev=1749583331&do=diff Quota via statistic() As an alternative to regular quotas, you can use the statistic() function to determine the number of cases per quota group and, depending on this, allow or reject participants. Important: Implementation using statistic() is significantly more complex than regular quotas. text/html 2023-12-06T20:46:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:resume?rev=1701895564&do=diff Pause and Continue Questionnaire Completion When respondents access the link to a questionnaire, SoSci Survey starts a new interview -- linked to a CASE number in the data set. As soon as answers are entered in the online questionnaire, SoSci Survey saves them in the interview. text/html 2024-05-23T06:29:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:serials?rev=1716445763&do=diff Access Codes Access Codes are short one-time codes that entitle you to fill out a questionnaire. They have the following functions: * Restriction of who can access the questionnaire. * Prevent Multiple Submissions by the Same Respondent * Linking survey data to an external data set (using the code as key variable). text/html 2024-05-23T06:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:start?rev=1716444498&do=diff Preparing and Launching the Survey Once the questionnaire is completed, only a few more steps are necessary to launch the survey. Pretests may seem trivial, but they are important for a reliable collection of data and should be carried out diligently. text/html 2024-05-23T05:56:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:unique-respondents?rev=1716443765&do=diff Prevent Multiple Submissions by the Same Respondent Theoretically, in the standard setting an online questionnaire can be completed by anyone as often as desired. In scientific surveys it is usually not very attractive for the participant to answer an extensive questionnaire several times. However, the situation might be different if the survey contains a vote or if there is an incentive for filling in the form. text/html 2025-04-15T23:17:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.soscisurvey.de/help/doku.php/en:survey:url?rev=1744759068&do=diff URL to the Questionnaire Every website needs its URL. So does your questionnaire. To lead questionees to your questionnaire, they will need this address. This chapter gives tips on how to best use the URL and what possibilities you have. The Survey's URL