Frequently Asked Question

How do I exclude participants from completing the survey if they don't meet certain criteria such as not agreeing to terms?
Last Updated 11 days ago

There are a couple of ways to do this in LimeSurvey.

In both cases, you would ask a question or questions which determine if the respondent is eligible to continue.

You could then do one of the following:

1. Set conditions on all subsequent questions which will only display the questions if they are eligible to proceed.

 - This is easy to do with the "conditions editor" in LimeSurvey, but you must keep track of any additional question you add to the survey and ensure the same conditions are applied to each question

 - You may also have to provide an alternative "End message" as you might not want to say "Thanks for completing" and instead say "Thanks but you are not eligible to complete the survey"


2. Set a quota

- This is a little bit counterintuitive to set up, but once set up you can add new questions to the survey without needing to set any conditions

- You can also set a specific message to display to those who are not eligible, compared to the standard thank you message.


Here is a short video showing how to set up a quota:

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