Exporting Data from Multiple Surveys

If you collect responses across multiple surveys, you can export their data together into a single spreadsheet. This is useful for comparing results over time or across different groups.

How to export multiple surveys

Multi-survey export

  1. Go to Settings and click Exports in the sidebar
  2. Scroll to the Export Data For Multiple Surveys section
  3. Click Export
  4. Select the surveys you want to include
  5. The data will be exported as an Excel spreadsheet

The resulting file will contain rows from all selected surveys. A column indicating the source survey is included so you can distinguish which responses came from which survey.

When to use multi-survey export

  • Pre and post surveys - Compare responses before and after an intervention
  • Recurring surveys - Combine monthly or quarterly survey data for trend analysis
  • Regional surveys - Merge responses from surveys distributed at different locations
  • Version comparisons - Compare responses between different versions of a survey

Column alignment

When exporting multiple surveys, columns are aligned by question. If two surveys share questions with the same name, their responses will appear in the same column. Questions that exist in only one survey will have blank cells for entries from the other survey.

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