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Prepare Survey Data

Purpose

Prepares data for analysis

Responsible Party

Project Lead 

Interdependencies

Survey data collection is complete

Directions
  1. Open

    Download the surveydata onfrom Qualtrics.

  2. Qualtrics

  3. Exporting Data from Surveys in Qualtrics

    1. Navigate to DataQualtrics

    and

    2. exportClick the project's survey

    data

    to

    3. Excel. DownloadClick "Data & Analysis"

    4. Click "Export & Import"

    5. Click "Export Data..."

    6. Click "Excel"

    7. Click "Use choice text.text"

    8. Click "

  4. Download"

  5. 9. Save the file into the project's folder on Box.

  6. Box

  7. Clean the data

    Clean survey data in Excel

    1. Open the file.

  8. survey
  9. Checkdata Excel file

    2. Click here to select all cells

    3. Click "Wrap Text" twice to turn it off in all cells

    4. In column C, look for any rows that contain Survey Preview

    5. Right-click the firstRow fewHeader

    6. Click "Delete"

    7. Select Columns A–Q

    8. Right-click the Q Column Header

    9. Click "Delete"

    10. Click the A Column Header

    11. Right-double-click the A Column Header

    12. Click "Insert" to add a column

    13. Click here

    14. Type "Document Name [[Enter]]"

    15. Type "Project-Survey-001 [[Enter]]"

    16. Select the anchor point of the cell and drag it down to fill all rows []with andnames deletein anysequence

    entries

    (entire

    17. rows)Review that+ cameensure fromall Surveycolumns Preview.

  10. Confirm that each column hashave a shortshort, descriptive name in therow second row.2. If anynot, areuse missingrow or1 unclear,to create them based onunderstand the column's question (found in row 1).
  11. Add a column at the beginning of the spreadsheet called "Document name". In the first row,and create a name thatin includesrow 2

    18. Select and delete row 1

    19. Select any cells with numbers

    20. Click the project,Number Format combo box

    21. Click "survey",Number" andto endingconvert infrom 001.

  12. text
  13. 》example:to project-survey-001
  14. numbers.
  15. FillRepeat for all numbers.

    22. Save the seriesfile

    down

    the column until every entry has a document name.
  16. Delete the [#] columns.
  17. Qualtrics often saves numbers as text. Convert the format to "number."
  18. Survey data is prepped when each row has a Document Name, each column has a descriptive name,name in the header, and number data is formatted correctly. 

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