Answers.Body: <p>Although you're putting together a survey, the CiviCRM tool you'll want to use is the Profile.  Create a new profile with the custom fields along with any standard ones you want to include.</p>
  
  <p>You'll then want to send an email with an automatically-personalized link to the profile--that way, everyone's responses will go on his or her own contact record without having to log in.  The full directions are here (follow the directions for Profile): <a href="https://aghstrategies.com/content/how-create-one-click-personalized-links-civicrm-emails" rel="noreferrer">https://aghstrategies.com/content/how-create-one-click-personalized-links-civicrm-emails</a></p>
  
  <p>The analysis capabilities in CiviCRM reports are kind of crude, but you'll be able to export the results into a spreadsheet and do any kind of statistics you need.</p>
  
  <p>A note about "surveys": this use case is collecting information into custom fields on the contact record, so that's a natural use for a profile in "edit" mode.  There is a feature in CiviCampaign called "survey" that is oriented toward collecting information through phone interviews or door-knocking.  You'll have the fields on the contact and/or the activity, and interviewers will fill it in.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thank you Andrew Hunt for your very useful answer.
  I've created custom fields in the custom data and tried setting up Profile, but I cannot find those custom fields in the drop-down list of Field Name when I'm trying to add fields in the profile.
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Answers.Text: You probably have the wrong entity type--contacts, individuals, activities, etc.--for the field you're trying to include.
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Body: <p>Can somebody help me to answer these following questions or refer me to some source to find out the answer:</p>
  
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  <li>I've created a survey by creating the custom fields and custom data. How do I get this survey distributed to people on my database i.e how do I email the survey link to targeted respondents? </li>
  <li>If the survey can be emailed to them, are their answers automatically recorded on their account/profile?</li>
  <li>In the report feature we can see answers of individual respondents. But does civiSurvey provide analysis capabilities such as counting percentage of the people choosing a, b, c for a specific question? If yes, where do we get that information?</li>
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Tags: <civireport><civisurvey><civipetiton>
Title: How do I distribute CiviSurvey by email, and then analyze the results?
ThreadText: # How do I distribute CiviSurvey by email, and then analyze the results?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-15)
  
  Can somebody help me to answer these following questions or refer me to some source to find out the answer:
  
  1. I've created a survey by creating the custom fields and custom data. How do I get this survey distributed to people on my database i.e how do I email the survey link to targeted respondents?
  2. If the survey can be emailed to them, are their answers automatically recorded on their account/profile?
  3. In the report feature we can see answers of individual respondents. But does civiSurvey provide analysis capabilities such as counting percentage of the people choosing a, b, c for a specific question? If yes, where do we get that information?
  
  **Tags:** civireport, civisurvey, civipetiton
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-16. Score: 5 | Accepted answer
  
  Although you're putting together a survey, the CiviCRM tool you'll want to use is the Profile. Create a new profile with the custom fields along with any standard ones you want to include.
  
  You'll then want to send an email with an automatically-personalized link to the profile--that way, everyone's responses will go on his or her own contact record without having to log in. The full directions are here (follow the directions for Profile): <https://aghstrategies.com/content/how-create-one-click-personalized-links-civicrm-emails>
  
  The analysis capabilities in CiviCRM reports are kind of crude, but you'll be able to export the results into a spreadsheet and do any kind of statistics you need.
  
  A note about "surveys": this use case is collecting information into custom fields on the contact record, so that's a natural use for a profile in "edit" mode. There is a feature in CiviCampaign called "survey" that is oriented toward collecting information through phone interviews or door-knocking. You'll have the fields on the contact and/or the activity, and interviewers will fill it in.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thank you Andrew username_1 for your very useful answer. I've created custom fields in the custom data and tried setting up Profile, but I cannot find those custom fields in the drop-down list of Field Name when I'm trying to add fields in the profile.  
  > **username_1**: You probably have the wrong entity type--contacts, individuals, activities, etc.--for the field you're trying to include.  
  
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