After you have completed step 5, the project is complete. If you have selected the status 'starts at, defined a start date and set the invitations, the project will automatically be executed.
Get results any time
Any time during and after the project you can retrieve the results in the fifth step of the project wizard. Simply select a project, click the Edit button and go the fifth step Results. Here you can see the number of responses. When you click the Get button the system will download the results (this may take a while, especially when there are many respondents) and ask you in which file format you want the results and where you want to save them. After clicking OK, the system transfers a copy of the results to your system in the chosen file format. For a continuous project you can select the intervals for which you want to download the results (see figure below).
Figure 27: Selecting and downloading results for a continuous research project
The three available data formats for the results are:
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| · | SAV /SPSS file; specific file format for statistical software.
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| · | CSV (Comma seperated value)
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The SAV data file format was developed by SPSS. This file format contains data as well as meta information that describes the meaning of the data. If you have analysis software from SPSS or another package that reads the SAV format you can download this file format and analyze the data immediately.
The CSV file needs to be imported for use in Excel. You cannot use this file in Excel directly. In Excel, on the 'Data' menu, choose 'Get External Data' and then choose 'Import Text File ...' to import the CSV file.
The data files (SPSS and CSV file) generated by the Metatude system not only contain the survey data, but also the attributes of the person who completed the survey, as well as the name of the target group. These characteristics are useful in analyzing the data.
The Excel file not only holds the results in numbers, but also contains charts of most of the questions. For multiple choice questions these are pie charts. For multiple response, scale, matrix and priority questions these are horizontal bar charts. You can easily change the chart type by selecting a chart, click with the right mouse button and select 'Chart type'. You can select from a large variety of charts in Excel.
The generated Excel file has different worksheets:
1) Charts
2) Frequencies
3) Data
4) Intervals (only for continuous projects)
Figure 28: Example of automatically generated Microsoft Excel file including charts