LimeSurvey offers two ways to see your results: quick charts in the Results tab of the new editor, and the full Statistics screen (Simple/Expert mode, HTML/PDF/Excel output, per-question graphs) reached from the Survey menu. This article covers both. For response summaries and raw-data export, see Overview — Responses & Statistics.

Quick charts in the Results tab

Statistics become available once an active survey has collected responses. In the new editor, open the Results tab in the top bar and choose Responses list in the sidebar. Use the view toggle at the top right of the table to switch from the table view to the chart view, then pick a chart type at the bottom: Bar, Pie, Radar, Line, or Doughnut. Some question types, such as free-text questions, are summarized differently and may not produce charts. Filter responses and Clear filters stay available, and the top-bar button changes to Export statistics.

These quick charts are still being built out. For detailed breakdowns, per-question graphs, and HTML/PDF/Excel output, use the full Statistics screen described below.

Opening the full Statistics screen

Open Survey menu → Statistics, or click Export statistics in the Results chart view. Either route opens the same classic Statistics screen (not the new autosave editor) — the complete statistics engine, and still the place for detailed analysis and exports. The screen opens in Expert mode; the top bar's Simple mode button switches to the simpler view (the other top-bar buttons are View statistics, Clear, and Close). Nothing autosaves here — click View statistics to (re)generate the output after changing options.

Simple mode

Simple mode gives ready-made bar charts, quick to save into a presentation. It only covers "countable" questions (single choice, multiple choice, arrays) and has one filter: complete, incomplete, or all responses (top right).

Expert mode

Expert mode lets you pick questions and filter the data before generating tables and charts.

Run quick statistics: tick the checkbox above each question and click View statistics — or enable View summary of all available fields to include everything. You get a Results table (number of matching cases) plus a per-question Field summary with answer counts and percentages.

General filters:

• Include — all responses, complete responses only (they have a submission date), or incomplete responses only; plus the statistics report language on multilingual surveys.
• Subtotals based on displayed or answered questions (Off / Displayed / Answered) — counts each question only against the responses where it was displayed or answered; useful for factoring out unfinished responses.
• Response ID (greater than / less than) and submission date (equals / later than / earlier than) filters.

Response filters (vary by question type):

• By response — click answers under a question; Ctrl+click selects several (Ctrl+click a highlighted answer to deselect).
• By text — search free-text answers; % is a wildcard (Tom% matches "Tomb", "Tommy").
• By numerical value — for number-based questions.

Filtered results are a subset: "6 of 13 records" means all summaries describe just those 6. Caution: don't filter on the same question you're summarizing — its summary would then only show the filtered answers.

Charts

Enable Show graphs in the output options to render charts. Chart types include bar, pie, radar, line, polar, and doughnut — set globally via the Chart type option, or per question via the Show in statistics dropdown on the Advanced tab of the question's settings panel (default "Bar chart"). Some question types can't be charted: numerical input instead shows a table with count, sum, standard deviation, average, minimum, median, and maximum.

To save charts, right-click one and choose "Save image as" (.png), or use Export images to save them all.

Exporting statistics output

Choose the output format before clicking View statistics:

• HTML (default) — shown on screen. Output options: show text responses inline, number of columns (One, Two, or Three), and graph labels (question code, question text, or both).
• PDF — downloads a file; charts are limited to pie (single choice) and bar (multiple choice) charts.
• Excel — no charts, but ideal for further work in a spreadsheet or, via CSV, in SPSS or R.

Good to know

• Incomplete = started, never submitted. No answer = question shown, left blank. Not completed/not displayed = the page never appeared (conditions or early exit).
• Public statistics for participants are enabled separately, under Presentation → Presentation via the Public statistics and Show graphs in public statistics options. Only bar charts appear on the public page.