How to Create Qualification Questions

What are Qualification Questions?

These questions use Logic to disqualify respondents from completing your form. For more information on Logic, you can read these articles concerning Default Logic and Page Logic.

Why use Qualification Questions?

The purpose of these questions is to remove unwanted or unnecessary respondents from your survey and give you more control over what your results will look like.

I.e. You may only want a specific demographic or group to answer every question in your survey, so removing respondents that do not fit into these groups will keep your results from becoming tainted.

Note: It’s fine to include other more general question on the disqualification page, or on prior pages if you want all participants to answer them. E.g. Contact Details.

How to Create Qualification Questions

1. Create a form

2. Add a new page near the start of your form, to be the Qualification Question host page: click the ⋮ icon next to any page title, choose Add page → Question Page

   Note: Ensure this page is placed before any pages containing questions that disqualified respondents need to skip

3. Add a second Exit/ Thank You page for disqualified respondents: click the ⋮ icon next to a page title (or the + Page shortcut under “Exit pages” in the Form tab), choose Add page → Exit Page

   Note: The disqualification exit page is added after the standard exit page so that successful respondents don’t see it. If you need to change the order of any pages, use ⋮ → Reorder pages and drag them into place

4. Add your disqualification questions to the chosen host page: click + Question, then choose a question type such as Multi-Choice (Single Select) under “Standard Questions”

5. Insert your disqualifying answer choices

6. Expand the question (Show more settings → Logic) and, next to your disqualifying answer(s), choose the disqualification exit page you created above from the drop-down

Removing Disqualified Respondents from your Results

You can customize your report to only include qualified respondents, by using our filtering feature.

To do this:

1. Go to Results
2. Open Filter & Compare in the sidebar, then click Add Filter
3. Set “Filter by” to Form Question Answers
4. Choose your qualifying question from the Question drop-down
5. Choose the qualifying answer for results concerning the qualified respondents OR choose the disqualifying answer for results concerning the disqualified respondents, then click Save

Alternatively, you could keep disqualified respondents in your report and use the Comparisons feature (in the same “Filter & Compare” sidebar) to analyze any correlations between demographic and disqualification.

E.g.

1. Require all respondents to answer personal information questions
2. Disqualify respondents that don’t fit into your target population
3. Examine the relationship between personal background and whether a respondent was disqualified
4. Use this information to narrow the scope of your target population in your next form

Note: Both Report features will require you to have a paid account.