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Export Research Survey Responses

Export responses, condition assignments, randomized display order, metadata, and documentation for analysis.

What Export Gives You

Export turns survey submissions into research data that can be analyzed outside Domandata. For academic and social science research surveys, exports should include respondent answers, condition assignments, quota-relevant fields, completion metadata, and any randomized display order needed for analysis.

Open the Export tab after you have at least one test response. Use it as a prelaunch audit: the exported file should tell the same story as the questionnaire, Flow diagram, quotas, and codebook.

Export: Data Output

Before Exporting

  1. Step 1: Open Preview. Complete at least one test response before relying on Export.

    Step 1: Open Preview

  2. Step 2: Check variables in Block Builder. Confirm question names and recodes are readable before live collection.

    Step 2: Check variables in Block Builder

  3. Step 3: Check Flow data. If the survey uses experimental conditions, verify that condition assignments are recorded as expected.

    Step 3: Check Flow data

  4. Step 4: Check randomization fields. Include ordering data when shuffled answers, rows, columns, sliders, or blocks affect interpretation.

    Step 4: Check randomization fields

  5. Step 5: Open Export. Use the Export tab to download the file and inspect headers.

    Step 5: Open Export

  6. Step 6: Back up before major edits. Download a backup before changing a live survey's wording, answer options, quotas, or conditions.

    Step 6: Back up before major edits

Data To Review

  • Answers: responses from each question type, including open text, scale values, matrix rows, rankings, and specialized tasks.
  • Condition picks: assigned arms for experimental condition sets and any assignment-relevant variables.
  • Randomized order snapshots: answer, row, column, slider, block, conjoint, or stimulus order when exported.
  • Quota-relevant variables: fields needed to understand sample targets, eligibility, and rerouting.
  • Completion data: status, end screen path, timestamps, and any completion-code workflow allowed by the protocol.
  • Metadata: respondent context available for the survey, plus fields needed for cleaning and reproducibility.

Export: Data Output

Analysis Notes

Keep a codebook that explains question wording, answer recodes, condition arms, exclusions, and any mid-field changes. If you use randomized display order, decide whether order will be a control variable, diagnostic field, or audit field in your analysis. For multilingual projects, document respondent language and translation choices; see Multilingual Research Surveys.

After live launch, download backups before changing wording, answer options, quotas, Flow, or end screens. If you pull data with scripts, compare API output with a manual export at least once; see Pull Survey Responses With the API and Troubleshoot API Response Pulls.

Export: Data Output

Related Help

  • Survey Variable Names and Recodes
  • Create Experimental Conditions
  • Randomize Survey Questions and Answer Options
  • Publish and Share a Research Survey