Research Guides

Design the study, not just the form.

Method-centered starting points for the decisions researchers make before launch—from assignment and recruitment to migration and reproducible analysis.

Survey Experiments

Plan an online survey experiment from treatment conditions and assignment through power, quality checks, export, and reproducible analysis.

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Conjoint Analysis

Design choice-based conjoint surveys with defensible attributes, randomized profiles, prohibited combinations, power planning, and analysis-ready exports.

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Panel Recruitment

Plan panel recruitment, screening, participant IDs, quotas, completion redirects, duplicate controls, and clean handoffs to Prolific or CloudResearch.

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Survey Data Analysis

Prepare survey variables, codebooks, quality decisions, randomization audits, and reproducible exports for R, Python, Stata, or SPSS.

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Qualtrics Migration

Move a research survey from Qualtrics QSF to Domandata, rebuild embedded logic visibly, validate recodes, and preserve historical response data.

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Choosing Survey Software

Guides from Domandata, which makes a survey platform. Each one says where our product fits and where another tool is the better choice. For our own case, see Why Domandata.

Qualtrics Alternatives

Domandata's guide to Qualtrics alternatives for social scientists, sorted by why you are switching, including when staying on Qualtrics is the right call.

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Social-Science Software Checklist

What survey software must do for social-science research, from auditable randomization to labelled exports, with a pilot test for each requirement.

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Free Survey Software

Domandata's guide to free survey software for students and academics: what each free option allows, its catches, and the costs that appear after launch.

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Qualtrics vs REDCap

Qualtrics or REDCap? How the two most common university survey tools differ on regulated data, access, study design, and exports, and when to use each.

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GDPR-Compliant Survey Software

No survey tool makes a study GDPR compliant on its own. What to require from a platform for EU research: hosting, processing agreements, and data minimization.

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Choosing a Recruitment Platform

Domandata's guide to choosing between Prolific, CloudResearch, aggregated panels, and probability samples for recruiting participants to online studies.

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Choosing Conjoint Software

Domandata's guide to conjoint tools: AMCE-focused social-science workflows versus utility-based market-research suites, with free options and caveats.

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Choosing Experiment Software

Domandata's guide to Gorilla, PsychoPy, jsPsych, Inquisit, Labvanced, and survey platforms for online psychology experiments, by timing, coding, and cost.

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Bot and Fraud Detection

How researchers keep bots, duplicate accounts, and AI-written answers out of online survey data, layer by layer, with the tools that help at each stage.

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AI in Survey Research

Synthetic respondents, silicon samples, and AI-led interviews: what the research shows, where AI helps a survey study, and where it undermines inference.

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Survey Software for Open Science

Preregister, freeze the instrument you field, and deposit a replication package: what survey software should do for open science, and where OSF is heading.

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Stata, SPSS, and R Exports

Which survey tools export native Stata, SPSS, and R files, which give you a CSV plus a script, and which give only spreadsheets, from official documentation.

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Multilingual Survey Software

Running one survey in several languages: translation workflows, right-to-left scripts, keeping variables comparable, and which tools document each feature.

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Survey Software for Teaching

Choosing survey software for a methods course: student access, privacy between students, ethics review for class projects, LMS grading, and teaching licenses.

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