Append Respondent Demographics to the Survey Entry Link

Overview

To provide a better respondent experience, we recommend skipping common demographic questions in your survey. You may specify demographic variables that you would like appended in your survey within the Survey Entry Link.

For more information on this feature, access the Passing Variables via Survey Link page.

How to use

To append a respondent’s answer to a PureSpectrum qualification, use the following notation when entering your entry link in either Buy API or in the UI:

https://mysurvey.com/survey?demographicVariable=[%%ps_qualification_id%%]

where https://mysurvey.com/survey is the link to your survey, ps_qualification_code corresponds to the PureSpectrum qualification ID, and demographicVariable is a keyname of your choosing.

Example

https://mysurvey.com/survey?gender=[%%211%%]

When a respondent is redirected to your survey, their entry link will contain the PureSpectrum condition code or input of their answer. This value of the respondent's answer will be inserted where you have specified.

https://mysurvey.com/survey?transaction_id=abc123&gender=111

We automatically append “transaction_id” to your entry link

Additional example

Appending gender, age, and income for a respondent who is male, 29, earning $45,000/year

Your entry link defined in PureSpectrum:

https://mysurvey.com/survey?gen=[%%211%%]&age=[%%212%%]&income=[%%213%%]

The respondent’s actual entry link into your survey:

https://mysurvey.com/survey?transaction_id=abc123&gender=111&age=29&income=45000

Important Considerations

While you may call the keyname as you wish (e.g. “gender”, “gen”, “sex”), the value returned in the keyname will always use the PureSpectrum condition code.

Please refer to the Get attributes endpoint to determine your qualification and condition codes.

We can always append Gender & Age of a respondent, and can also append any audience criteria that is defined in the survey.

If the survey is screening on ethnicity, then race can be added to the live link using https://mysurvey.com/?race=[%%214%%]

If a qualification is added that is not present in the survey, the entry link for the respondent may contain “null” in the query string parameter, which may break your survey (e.g. https://mysurvey.com/survey?transaction_id=abc123&race=null).

In the event that a question is a multi-select (where more than one answer is permitted), the answers will be appended as a comma-separated string (e.g. &pets=111,112).

Income and age questions return an integer. If you need to place these respondents into a bucket, like age 55-64, you will need to account for this in your survey when processing the respondent’s profile.

Common Demographics and their Qualification ID’s

Demographic	ps_qualification_code	Demographic Option	PureSpectrum Condition Code For Option
Gender	211	Male	111
Gender	211	Female	112
Age	212	User Defined Input	Returns the user’s age as an integer (e.g. age=27)
Household Income	213	User Defined Input	Returns the user’s household income as an integer (e.g. income=55000)
zipcode	229	User Defined Input	Returns the user’s zipcode as an integer (e.g. 90403)

The list above is just for representation purposes. For a full, updated list please look at the Get attributes endpoint.

Append Respondent Demographics to the Survey Entry Link

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How to use#

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Common Demographics and their Qualification ID’s#

Overview

How to use

Example

Additional example

Important Considerations

Common Demographics and their Qualification ID’s