3 Step Guide to Analyze Open-ended Survey Responses
What’s the great thing about open-ended questions? You get genuine opinions from people as they are not bound to select from the available answer choices. However, the real challenge begins when you have hundreds of responses to review. This type of analysis is called qualitative data analysis. And for most researchers, the least favorite thing. Hence, in this article, we explain a 3-step guide on how you can make sense out of open-ended questions, and make your life easier! Prepare the data and read through the responses With survey reports, you can overview the responses of close-ended questions from charts. However, with reports like detailed individual reports, you can gather the response of each and every responder at an individual level. After you have them, start reading. While trying to understand them, make sure to label or categorize them in a way that resonates with you. For example, if the feedback is about not receiving responses of tickers, you can use t