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Panelist Folders
The Panelist Participation folder contains variables that hold various items of information on the panelists. These variables can be used when reporting on the panel and when creating samples. The folders outside the loop contain aggregated numbers across all surveys the panelist is uploaded to, whereas the folders inside the loop contain variables with information specific to each survey the panelist is uploaded to. The PanelistParticipationSurveys answer list will be updated automatically with new surveys as samples from the panels are uploaded.
Variable name |
Description |
CreditBalance |
Total number of points the panelist has gathered. |
NumberOfSurveysUploadedTo |
Total number of surveys the panelist has been uploaded to. |
NumberOfSurveysInvitedTo |
Total number of surveys the panelist has been invited to (by email). |
TotalNumberOfInvitations |
Total number of invitations sent to the panelist across all surveys. |
DateOfLastSurveyInvitation |
The date and time of the last email invitation to any survey the panelist is uploaded to. |
DateOfLastParticipation |
The date and time when the panelist last accessed any of the surveys he/she is uploaded to. |
SurveyName |
Survey name of the survey (from overview). |
SurveyStatus |
The panelist’s current status on the survey (e.g. complete, screened etc.) |
SurveyRespid |
The respid of the panelist in the survey survey’s database. |
NumberOfInvitationsPerSurvey |
The number of email invitations sent to the panelist for the survey (noOfEmailsSent). |
DateOfSurveyStart |
The date and time the survey was last accessed by the respondent (interview_start). |
DateOfSurveyEnd |
The date and time the survey was finished by the respondent (interview_end). |
DateOfSurveyStatus |
The date and time the survey status was last set for the panelist on the survey. |
DateOfSurveyInvitation |
The date and time the last email invitation was sent to the panelist on the survey. |
Panelist Status Folder
The Panelist Status folder contains the variable EmailStatus that will hold the Email Delivery Status (go to Email Delivery Report for more information) for the panelists. This variable can be used when reporting on the panel, when updating samples, and when creating samples.
When you create a sample, upload it to a survey and distribute the invitations to the respondents, the Email Delivery Report will be created for these respondents in the survey. The delivery status from this survey will also be flagged in the panel survey, i.e. the respondent table for the panelist will be updated in the panel survey with this status.
The EmailStatus variable can have 3 values:
- Valid – if the receiving server responds with a message with a code under 400, the email address is Valid.
- Error (Permanent Error) – if the receiving server responds with a code between 500 and 599, this means a “Permanent Error” has occurred.
- TempE rror (Temporary Failure) – if the receiving server responds with a code between 400 and 499, this means a “Temporary Failure” has occurred.