Responses & Statistics

Responses & Statistics

Responses & statistics

Your survey has been activated.  Invitations have been sent to participants.  You have started to received responses.  You can now use the Responses & Statistics functionality for analysis.

From the top navigation bar, click Responses and select Responses & Statistics.



The summary page is displayed.



The Response summary contains the following:
  • Full responses - the number of surveys submitted by your respondents (by clicking the Submit button located on the last page of your survey
  • Incomplete responses - the number of surveys that have not been completely filled out by your respondents
  • Total responses - the aggregated number of complete/full and incomplete responses
Note: In the Responses table, the incomplete answers are response records with no submission date. Such a record can occur when a participant uses the resume later function, or when an operator uses the data entry functionality to fill out a survey without submitting the answer, or when a participant fails to complete the survey because he/she just left.

If you make use of the Survey participants option, then a summary of the survey participants-related data is displayed on this page below the Response summary table.

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  • Total invitations sent - the number of invitations sent to your participants from the survey participants table
  • Total surveys completed - shows the number of surveys that have been completed by your survey participants who have been allocated a token code
  • Total with no unique token - displays the number of survey participants without an assigned token code
  • Total records - the number of survey participants from the survey participants table
Note: Please refer to the Survey participants article for a detailed explanation of the Survey participants functionality.

Toolbar options

The following options are displayed on the top navigation bar.


  • Summary - the page displayed after clicking "Responses & statistics"
  • Display responses - redirects to the survey response table
  • Data entry - used to manually introduce responses into the survey response table - mainly used when survey responses were collected offline
  • Statistics - provides simple and complex statistics, as well as the possibility to export data outside LimeSurvey
    • Statistics - simple mode - makes use of the in-built statistics function to generate simple graphs and charts
    • Statistics - expert mode - allows you do select certain data to be displayed in the statistics. In the case where the in-build expert mode is not sufficient for your needs, you can export the data in other formats to further analyze it by using other statistics-specialized software
  • Export responses - used to export survey responses
  • Import responses - used to import responses gathered in other surveys
  • View saved but not submitted responses - under certain conditions users can resume the survey later to finish it. The respective answers can be seen by you with the help of this function
  • Batch deletion - use this function to delete answers in a batch

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