How do I create a Filter by Response?

If you want to analyze data based on respondents' answers, we offer a filtering tool within the Analyze section. Based on questions in the survey, you can pick specific answer choices to build a response-based filter. With this applied, you will see only the surveys that match that criteria.

star Learn more about these principles: Filter by Response 

 

How to Create a Filter by Response: 

EXAMPLE: You want to see how "females" have answered. Use a gender question from the survey as the filter criterion. In the Analyze section, choose that gender question and pick "female" as the answer choice in the Filter by Responses option. 

  1. Click on the [Analyze] icon analyze next to the survey title on the My Surveys page. This opens the Response Summary section.
  2. Click on the [Filter Responses] button to the left side of the summary page.
  3. Check the Filter by Responses option, and name your filter on the Filter Editor page.

  4. Click [+ New Response Filter] and pick your question(s) and answer choice(s) from the drop-down menus, such as:

  • Show responses of people who answered question: (select question)
  • With answer choice: (any question choice, or pick the specific answer choice)

Click the [Save Filter] button when you are finished.

NOTE: You have the ability to "save" filters within this section. If you have to filter by many different criteria, you can create multiple filters and simply toggle them on and off. (*Only one named filter can be active at any given time.)

 

EXAMPLE - Multiple Criteria:

You want to filter the data by more than one response (or more than one answer choice) within a saved filter. In this example, you want to filter by multiple schools. Perhaps you want to know who goes to "Carmel" and who goes to "Forest Dale." Name this individual filter School.

 

arrow  Part A. Click the [+ New Filter Response] button and your first filter parameter within this one "School" filter would be: 

  • Show respondent who answered....What school do you attend?    
  • with response of......Carmel

Then you can add a second one to this same "School" filter by clicking the [+ New Response Filter] button underneath the first filter and set up the second one as follows:   

  • Show respondent who answered....What school do you attend?    
  • with response of......Forest Dale

 

arrow  Part B. If you create more than one criteria, you will have the option to Match Every Filter, Match Any Filter, or Create Custom Combination of Filters.

  • If you select to match every filter, then the tool will only search for respondents who meet all the criteria you set and will filter everyone else out.
  • If you select to match any filter, the tool with search for those who match any of the criteria. All other respondents will be filtered out.
  • Click the [Save Changes] button when you are finished.

When this "school" filter is toggled on, you will see only those that match the criteria for the responses and questions.

RESULT: If 5 out of 10 people selected Carmel, you would only see those 5 respondents' surveys and all the questions in their surveys. The rest would be hidden.