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Allow Survey Respondents to Tag Open-Ended Answers

Let your respondents tag their answers for more efficient data analysis.

Written by Glaiza Veluz

Analyzing answers of open-ended questions can be a time-consuming process.

To address this issue and make analysis more efficient, ImpactMapper has a feature that allows survey respondents to tag their answers with your tags or impact metrics for open-ended questions. This leads to real-time processing, analysis, and visualization of data as survey answers are submitted to the platform. With this, the analysis of your survey data from open-ended questions is much faster.

You can enable respondents to enter tags to their answers to open-ended survey questions through the following steps:

  1. Click the Survey menu at the left side panel.

  2. Open the Design tab and choose the question type Short text or Long text to collect open-ended questions.

  3. Type your question and click Add Tags. Survey respondents can be allowed to select one tag or several tags from your organization by enabling the Allow selecting multiple tags option.

The video below demonstrates how to add tags to open-ended survey questions

Once the survey has been sent to respondents, the video below shows how a respondent can tag his/her answer.

Please note that ImpactMapper also has a feature where answers from completed surveys can be tagged. So you do not have to enable participant tagging as your team can tag the data internally. Or you can do both! Lots of tagging options for your open-ended text questions.

This means that the platform can enable tagging at the data-gathering stage (when respondents get to tag their answers) and after data-gathering (once the surveys are completed and submitted).

To learn more about applying tags to completed surveys, you can read this article.

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