✉ Inviting respondents

✉ Inviting respondents and using keys and other tags

How are respondents invited?

You as survey editor invite respondents to participate simply via a web link. You can send that link to anyone you like.

When you save your interview, you will see the link displayed in the action bar. You just need to click on the copy button and paste the link in an email, message etc.

Inviting your respondents to an audio-enabled interview (NEW!)

If you use this special URL, your respondents will be able to talk instead of type.

Using personalised keys

At QualiaInterviews, we don’t store personally identifying information at all.

But what if you want to match up Qualia interview answers with respondent characteristics?

You can add a personalised key like &key=1234 to the end of each individual invitation, so it looks like e.g. https://chat.qualiainterviews.com/?interview=school-days &key=1234.

Use only alphanumeric characters with no spaces for your key. It’s easiest if you just use numbers like 0007, 0123, 0999 etc.

You keep track of who you sent which invitation to, so that you know that e.g. key 1234 belongs to Jo Johannsen. You can keep this information separately in an Excel sheet.

An easy way to generate the URLs (and keep track of who is who) is by using a mail merge tool like YAMM. This can also help you track who has opened each email or clicked on the link.

Here is a spreadsheet to help you easily generate correct keys.

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This is a template. To use it, you should make a copy or download it and edit on your own copy.

When you download your data, if you have used personalised keys you will see the key prepended to the session identifier like this: key: 1234-13f08a0d2. You can use this key to e.g. merge back your respondent information from your Excel sheet.

This functionality is very simple.

There are no settings to change. Simply add keys to your invitations

Your interview will still be available if someone fills it in without the personalised key in the URL - but you will be able to identify (and filter out) any such anonymous respondents when you download your data.

Using other tags

The query parameter aka tag called “key” e.g. &key=0123 is used by the editor app for uniquely identifying respondents.

In addition to that, all tags such as &some_tag=some_value are passed on to the interviewer (including the key, if present). The interviewer already knows this at the start of the interview. So you can make use of these e.g. for conditional sections in the interview.

Example. If you have URLs like:

chat.QualiaInterviews.com?interview=myinterview&country=Germany

chat.QualiaInterviews.com?interview=myinterview&country=France&key=1234

… you could add conditional statements like this to the interview instruction:

If the interviewee’s country is France, ask them additional questions about wine. If their country is Germany, ask additional questions about beer. Otherwise ignore the country tag, if present.

Or if you have URLs with just a key, where some of the characters have a special meaning:

chat.QualiaInterviews.com?interview=myinterview&country=France&key=1234M)

.. then try adding this to the instruction:

If the interviewee’s key tag ends in M , ask them the extra set of questions for men.

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