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  • 1.  Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 09-24-2024 19:48

    Hello!

    For those of you that conduct surveys, which survey programs do you use? 

    Google forms does not have the functionality that I need, and I assume Microsoft Forms falls in the same camp. (I am trying to avoid anything Microsoft, since I struggle with their cloud interfaces.) I used Qualtric when I was working at my previous job, and I know it was expensive. Their website does not specify the price without going through a salesperson (Does anyone have an estimate on an individual license?). Survey Monkey has the functionality I need, and the price looks reasonable. 

    Are there any other survey programs that you have experience with that you can recommend? Interested in hearing a perspective before deciding on Survey Monkey.

    I am interested in survey capabilities, such as question response logic, response sliders, qualitative analysis on comments, and other question automation (e.g. answer carry-over).

    Thank you all!!

    Sarah



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    Sarah Kalicin
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  • 2.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 09-24-2024 22:11
    I don't do a lot of survey setup, just data analysis, but can share my experiences:

    * The R package for qualtrics is very well-supported, but the R package for surveymonkey a lot less so - I've been able to make it work for the last couple years, but at some point it will probably break and need to be rewritten.

    * I always require my clients to pay for their own survey software, so I haven't had to buy licenses myself - but I have heard that Qualtrics places artificially low limits/quotas on the number of respondents as a way to implement price discrimination, vs SurveyMonkey does it more through feature-gating/"premium plans" instead.

    * Especially in the Qualtrics/quota case, it can be helpful to do a power analysis first to figure out which plan you really need.

    Best,

    Neal





  • 3.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 10-01-2024 16:57

    Thank you Neal!  This is helpful. 



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  • 4.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 09-24-2024 22:21

     the worst feature or misrepresentation of survey monkey. 

    one can track every individuals response because it keeps their email as a key. 

    more than once I have seen people administering survey monkey saying that results are confidential.

     they aren't confidential whenever one can figure out how each particular person responded to each question. 

    I've always been concerned that the risk of retaliation is quite high with surveymonkey



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  • 5.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 10-01-2024 17:01

    Hi Chris, Hope all is well. Thank you!!  For our use case, we want to track individuals, since we need to quantify performance improvement from a pre and post surveys. We will disclose this, allowing folks to opt out upon disclosing this.



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    Sarah Kalicin
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  • 6.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 09-24-2024 22:28

    Since you mentioned Google Forms and Microsoft Forms, I offer the following comment only as something that may be worth exploring because I expect it to be at least comparable, possibly better.

    I recently came across Odoo by accident. While it is meant to be an "enterprise" solution, its base is open source consisting of various apps, and it has a "forms" as one of its apps. As long as you stick to one app it's free forever. I have yet to test its forms app because I'm currently using my one-app allowance to test something else, so I have nothing intelligent to say about its forms capabilities other than that it's free forever and may be worth looking into. No idea if there are any limitations on the number of respondents, etc.

    Totally FWIW.



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  • 7.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 09-24-2024 23:16

    REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is, in my opinion, by far and away the best solution for online surveys and data collection/management. It does all that you mention, and then some.  It is free to academic, governmental, and non-profit organizations, which is where my experience lies. The organization needs to install and maintain it, which might be off-putting to some. However, the type of organizations I listed can generally contract with DataCore at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to use their REDCap instance, at a per-project-per-month fee, if they prefer.

    There is a commercial version of REDCap that for-profit businesses and companies can use. It's called "REDCap Cloud." I have no experience with that and don't know what their fees are.

    There are several R packages that provide very robust integration with REDCap.



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  • 8.  RE: Survey Programs Recommendations

    Posted 10-01-2024 16:55

    Thank you!! I will check out REDcap Cloud.



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    Sarah Kalicin
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