BETA: Thematic Analysis is only available to some customers with accounts hosted in the US Data Center at this time. This feature is available for English surveys only.
Thematic Analysis automatically groups text responses by key themes. Thematic Analysis allows you to:
Thematic Analysis works with text responses from Comment Box and Single Text Box questions.
SurveyMonkey's Thematic Analysis feature uses a self-hosted Anthropic model in its secure data environment to analyze and group your responses. Your survey data remains private and secure. Anthropic does not have access to your data and your data is not used to train their AI models. We also mask common data types, like phone numbers, to reduce exposure of potentially sensitive data.
When you turn on Thematic Analysis for a survey, your question text, response text, and response ID are analyzed to look for common themes. Those themes are then applied to relevant responses.
You’ll only see the Thematic Analysis option if it’s available on your plan.
To turn on Thematic Analysis:
We’ll start generating themes based on your open-ended responses. Review the themes we applied to your responses. You can also enable Sentiments to better understand your respondents’ feelings while responding to your survey.
If you collect more responses, generate themes again to apply them to your new responses.
To regenerate themes, select Regenerate themes in the Thematic Analysis tab. You’ll see this option after collecting new open-ended responses.
When you regenerate themes, any manual changes you’ve made to your themes will be lost. To keep any edits you’ve made, manually apply themes instead.
After we tag your responses, you can view your open-ended responses and filter them by theme in the Thematic Analysis page.
To view themed responses and filter by theme:
To export responses for your question:
The export includes the following data: