Paradata settings

Completed

Set to Completed when the participant has submitted the survey.

Duration

The time taken to complete an interview. Calculated as the difference between the start time and the end time and recorded as minutes to 2 decimal places (e.g., 3.25 would be 3 minutes and 15 seconds).

End Date

Records the date the interview was completed. (Start dates and end dates are usually the same, unless an interview is interrupted or crosses midnight.)

End Time

Records the time when the interview was submitted.

Interviewer

Checking the Display in questionnaire box creates a new question, allowing the variable to be set. Set once each time the survey is opened to collect responses. This will automatically be set to a login name on the Interviewer app.

Language

Always present in multi-language survey. Selecting Display in questionnaire creates a language question, allowing the respondent to select the language used to complete the questionnaire.

Password

Used to store a password for password regulated surveys. Must be seeded with a password from a database for the participant in Snap XMP Online.

Respondent

Used to store unique respondent id. Used as login name for Snap XMP Online. Must be pre-seeded from a database.

Site

Checking the Display in questionnaire box creates a new question, allowing the variable to be set. This is set once each time the survey is opened to collect responses.

Start Date

Records the date on which each interview was started.

Start time

Records the time when an interview was commenced and the first question displayed.

Survey Index

Checking the Display in questionnaire box creates a new instruction, allowing a message to be displayed in Snap XMP Online. Records the status of the survey(started, in progress, completed) when the survey is opened by the participant