====== Response Rate Control ======

In the response rate statistics SoSci Survey displays how often a questionnaire has been called up and how often it has been completed. You can also see on which page respondents have left the survey. 

You can find the current response rate statistic under menu item **Collected Data** -> **Response Rate Statistics**.

**Tip:** When promoting your survey, for example on a website, approximately half of the respondents will only have a look on the first page ("left immediately") or the second page (canceled after "page 1"). If more participants quit the survey too early, it could be that something went wrong when designing the greeting ([[de:create:tips#inhalt_und_form|Design: Content and Form]]).

**Tip:** If you use more questionnaires in your project, click on the respective questionnaire in the upper graph to receive a more detailed statistic. 

**Information:** Usually the statistic displays the current response rate. If the server cache the interviews, you may see the information "not all interviews are transferred to the database". In this case the statistic is not up-to-date -- but you can transfer the interviews safley with one click to the database in order to receive the current statistic. 

**Information:** In the response rate statistic the page is counted at last on which a participant has pressed the "next" button. If, for example, a participant completes page 3 in the questionnaire by pressing the "next" button and then, is forwarded to the end of the questionnaire via ''[[:en:create:functions:gotopage#end_interview|goToPage('end')]]'' on page 4, a finished questionnaire will be counted on page 3 for this participant. 

In the following example (see figure below) a filter on page 14 has decided whether a participant is sent directly to the last page or if he/she can continue. 469 participants were sent to end of the questionnaire, whereas 2099 were allowed to continue, but left the survey. 730 participants filled in the questionnaire up to and including page 18 and reached the end of the questionnaire (page 18) by submitting the page.  


{{:de:results:scr.response.png?nolink|Rücklauf-Statistik aus einer Befragung mit Panel-Rekrutierung}}