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Week 2: Managing Surveys and Data in KoboToolbox

🎯 Objectives​

  • Manage survey user access.
  • Export collected data in various formats.

📘 Introduction​

Effective survey management ensures data integrity and accessibility. This week focuses on managing surveys, user permissions, and exporting data for analysis.

📄 Learning Materials​

📝 Activities​

  1. User Management: Add and manage user permissions for your survey. Pair with a someone else from the workshop to practice adding users and setting different levels of access.
  2. Data Export: Export collected data in CSV and Excel formats, and explore how it looks like in your favorite spreadsheet tool.
  3. Version Control: Update your survey, redeploy it and observe how versioning works.
  4. Share your experience Take screenshots or photos of your experience and upload them on the survey linked here

⚙️ Additional Resources from the Check-in​

These are topics that were brought up in the last Check-in, so everyone can be aware of it and take a peek of the resources or the recordings of the session.

Question grouping and skip logic​

People were interested in understanding better how question grouping worked, and how it related with Skip Logic.

Here is a resource that explains question groupings.

Data Collection mechanisms​

There are two main ways of doing data collection: Using the Kobo Collect Android app, and using Webforms (frequently referred to as Enketo).

KoboToolbox has some excellent documentation that describes each of these mechanisms in detail.

SPSS export​

One of the attendants mentioned fluency with SPSS, a Statistics tool. This video shows how to export data from KoboToolbox and into SPSS for further analysis: How to import kobotoolbox data into SPSS for Analysis