Respondent Pool

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A Respondent Pool is the name given to describe a group of respondents who have certain survey properties in common and who's members are managed as a unit for survey administration and analysis purposes. They share:

• Start and stop dates
• Delivery mode
• Metadata
• Completion URL
• count of the expected number of respondents
• a group of people authorized to see the results

A survey can have multiple respondent pools (for example class sections in a course evaluation); pools can be added over time (for example in a longitudinal study).

The respondent pool can have its own reports and access to the reports can be delegated to sub-managers who gain access by a Dashboard.

Respondent pools are managed with the Respondent_Pool_Manager.

Screen shot of Respondent Pool Manager.

In Silhouette (aka Flashlight Online 1.0) an approximation of the Respondent Pool concept was implemented with the Categorical Variable feature.

This page applies to Version 1.3.0 (February 2010)