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Surveys

Nomenclature​

Surveys (Interviews in the UI) contain Questions.

Responses to Surveys are created for respondents (e.g. candidates).

Responses contain Answers to the Questions of the Survey.

Assessments are linked to the Surveys which provide Answers (via Responses to their Questions) for the Assessment to analyse to produce scores.

Scores are stored in ResponseResult objects.

Survey trees​

Surveys in the Pera system are, in fact, a tree of linked Survey objects. Usually each Survey in a tree is linked to a particular type of Assessment. For example, Natural Language (NLP) assessments are linked to a Survey containing 3 open-ended questions or a personality Assessment is linked to a Survey containing choice questions.

The diagram below shows a head Survey with 3 child Surveys, each providing Questions whose Answers will be analysed by the linked Assessment.

survey tree

Survey Objects​

Each Survey may have:

  • a welcome and thankyou Page: the pages must be shown to the respondent
  • Questions: the questions must be shown to the respondent in the order specified by the order field
  • Assessments linked via a SurveyAssessmentLink object

Head Survey Objects​

The survey tree starts with the head survey.

The head survey may have a:

  • welcome page: in which case it is the first page shown to the respondent
  • thankyou page: in which case it is the last page (after all the other surveys) shown to the respondent
  • SurveyProfile: in which case profile questions are the first questions answered by the respondent