Online Survey Software

In a paper survey, a question asking for an email address or a phone number normally looks like this:

Even though respondents would not intentionally put in incorrect information here, you have no control when a respondent who just wants to get to the next page in a hurry puts in random text, which is useless to you. The problem becomes a little more real in cases when survey creators ask for figures like:

How do you make sure everyone enters numbers and currencies in the same format? Some might put the answer in words and make any calculations on the data (such as average income) extremely difficult. This is where Cvent Web Surveys software offers you a massive advantage over paper surveys. For your open ended (non-choice) questions, you can specify whether respondents put in Number/Currency/General text/Phone number/Email address. Additionally when selecting formats such as number, you can specify whether a number should be greater/less than a certain number, or even lie in a specific range.

You can even design your open ended questions to take answers in date or date and time format. Additionally, you can decide whether the date should be on or after or on or before a certain date. In other words, you ensure that respondents enter in exactly what they’re supposed to. If you decide to put in a calendar asking people what date they will attend a multi-day conference, you can make sure each respondent can only select one of those three dates. You can even make this question required so survey respondents can’t skip it and move forward. You will always get exactly the information you need and all of your responses will be meaningful.

This power of being able to control what responses you receive is not limited to open ended questions only; for multiple response questions you can determine the maximum and/or minimum number of options that respondents can choose.