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
Export
Download analysis-ready response data from the Export tab.
Before Exporting
Step 1: Open Preview. Complete at least one test response before relying on Export.
Step 1: Open Preview
Block BuilderPreviewDeployPreview
Walk through respondent-facing behavior in the same preview surface.
Step 2: Check variables in Block Builder. Confirm question names and recodes are readable before live collection.
Step 2: Check variables in Block Builder
Block Builder: 7-Point Ideology Scale
A standard 7-point political ideology measure. The question name ideology_7pt becomes the column header in the export.
Step 3: Check Flow data. If the survey uses experimental conditions, verify that condition assignments are recorded as expected.
Step 3: Check Flow data
Block BuilderPreviewDeployFlow Canvas
Interactive routing surface from the app, running in no-persist help mode.
Step 4: Check randomization fields. Include ordering data when shuffled answers, rows, columns, sliders, or blocks affect interpretation.
Step 4: Check randomization fields
Block BuilderPreviewDeployFlow Canvas
Interactive routing surface from the app, running in no-persist help mode.
Step 5: Open Export. Use the Export tab to download the file and inspect headers.
Step 5: Open Export
Block BuilderPreviewDeployExport: Ideology Scale
With recodes 1–7 set, the ideology_7pt column exports numeric values instead of label text — matching the codebook and analysis plan.
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
Block BuilderPreviewDeployExport: Ideology Scale
With recodes 1–7 set, the ideology_7pt column exports numeric values instead of label text — matching the codebook and analysis plan.
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
Export
Download analysis-ready response data from the Export tab.
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
Export
Download analysis-ready response data from the Export tab.