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Reporting on Quick Poll Data

Learn how to interpret the data collected using the Quick Poll tool.

Gayathri Rajendiran avatar
Written by Gayathri Rajendiran
Updated over a week ago

The Quick Poll tool allows your participants to vote on preferred options or answer other multi-choice questions quickly. When your consultation ends, there are two main ways you can collate and analyze your Quick Poll data:

You can analyze your data while the consultation is ongoing for some preliminary insights, but you will not be looking at the final dataset. To report on the final dataset, please ensure that the project or tool is archived so there will be no more contributions.

Using the Detailed Excel Report

The Detailed Report will show you overall tool statistics, each Quick Poll submission, and relevant participant data. To generate the report:

  1. Go to Reporting > Project Reports, choose the relevant Projects and date range, then select Update.

  2. Expand the Download Report menu and select Excel under Detailed Report. This option is only available when you have selected five or fewer projects.

  3. Once the download is complete, open the zip file and the relevant project file. There will be an Excel file for each selected project.

  4. Go to the Quick Poll tab to see your data. Each tool instance has its own tab, so multiple tabs may exist.

There are contains three sections to explore:

  • Summary information: columns A and B provide an overview of participation and a breakdown of the participation type (registered, unverified, anonymous, or admin).

  • Contribution information: columns D-G provide contribution details such as the contribution date, the question asked in the Quick Poll, the answer the participant submitted, and the user’s screen name or whether it was an Anonymous User.

  • Signup Questions: columns I and onwards contain each question in your Signup Form and your users' answers. We provide this information so you can filter your submissions using demographic data. Please note that this information is only available if a contributor is registered and logged in when they submit.

Using the Quick Polls Tool Report

The Quick Polls Tool Report will provide useful graphs and insights into your Quick Polls.

Go to Reporting > Tool Reports > Quick Polls to generate the report. You can explore the following sections once you filter to the relevant Projects and date range.

Overview

This section contains:

  • The number of Quick Polls, including Published, Draft, and Archived polls.

  • A visitor summary counting Visitors, Contributors, Contributions and the participation type. You can also use the dropdown menu to choose a specific tool’s statistics.

  • The Engagement Summary bubble graph. On this graph, larger bubbles indicate more contributions. The vertical axis indicates the number of visitors, while the horizontal axis indicates when it was published. You can use the hamburger icon to download this graph as a JPEG, PNG, SVG, or PDF.

Demographics

In this section, you can use Signup Form Questions to see graphed participant data from registered users who contributed to the tool. If you don’t use registration or used unverified participation, there will be no data here.

You can use the hamburger icon to download the graph as a jpeg, PNG, SVG, or PDF.

Quick Polls Visitor Statistics

This section includes the project and Quick poll question, and the number of:

  • Visitors to the tool page

  • Contributors

  • Responses

  • Responses by Admins

This information can help you compare different polls to see which tools received more visitors and contributions.

Quick Poll Insights

The Quick Poll Insights will show a graph of the poll responses or a list of the Responder and Response in the Responses tab. You can use the dropdown to switch between Quick Poll tools and the Signup Form Question dropdown to filter by demographics.

In the graph, you can select Question Options to hide them and use the hamburger icon to download the graph as a PNG, JPEG, PDF, or SVG file.

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