The Reporting tab contains the rules for how a response is analyzed and displayed in the Analyses section of RedJade. You can configure reporting parameters based on the question type and change them later in the Analyses, if needed. Reporting selections can be modified at any time, including after data has already been collected. Reporting selections can also be modified in the Analyses application. The options selected in Analyses, Live Results are used to update the reporting options in the Questionnaire Builder. If a questionnaire is re-opened in Questionnaire Builder, the reporting options last selected in Analyses, Live Results are shown.
| SEE ALSO – Add and Work With Questions for the steps to add a question to a questionnaire page. |
See the following:
Configure Reporting in Questionnaire Builder
To specify the reporting parameters from the questionnaire builder:
- From a page, click on a question or page element to open the configuration window.
- From the REPORTING tab, select the configuration options from the available fields as they pertain to the question type.
Reporting Name – Optionally, enter a "short name" to display in the analysis. If left blank, the system titles the result with the full question text. All questions types have a Reporting Name field.
Reporting Type:- Categorical – There are two types of categorical scales, nominal and ordinal. A nominal scale has no intrinsic ordering to its categories. For example, gender is a categorical scale having two categories (male and female) with no intrinsic ordering to the categories. An ordinal scale has a clear ordering. For example, usage frequency as a scale with four orderly categories (never, rarely, occasionally, always).
- Interval – An interval scale is one in which the interval or distance between points on the scale is assumed to be equally spaced and the scale has an arbitrary zero point, thereby making no claims about the "absolute" magnitude of the attribute measured.
- Overall Opinion – Overall Opinion is an interval scale. Overall Opinion is used as the acceptance or liking score when performing Penalty Analysis. For this purpose, only one Overall Opinion question can be set in a questionnaire.
- JAR – A JAR (Just-About-Right) scale is a bipolar scale, typically with 3 or 5 categories, usually anchored with statements such as "Much too much," "Just about right," and "Much too little". Questions with JAR set as the Reporting Type are used to indicate the attributes to include in Penalty Analysis.
SEE ALSO – What is Penalty Analysis and Create a Penalty Analysis for further details.
Chart Type – Specifies the type of chart by which to portray the data.- Column – A column chart typically displays categories along the horizontal (category) axis and values along the vertical (value) axis.
- Bar – A bar charts illustrates comparisons among individual items, with categories typically organized along the vertical axis, and the values along the horizontal axis.
- Line – In a line chart, category data is distributed evenly along the horizontal axis and all value data is distributed evenly along the vertical axis.
Time Increment – Used in Temporal Questions to indicate the distance between points on the scale. Number of increments refers to how many intervals make up the scale. Select the additional reporting options, these vary depending on the question type.
Additional Reporting Options:- Mean Score – Check the box to display the Mean Scores for the responses. Mean is the average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding up all the numbers in the set and then dividing by the total number of numbers in that set; essentially, it represents the "middle" value of a data set.
- Median – Check the box to display the median value. Median is the middle value in a set of numbers when they are arranged in order, meaning that half of the numbers in the set are higher than the median and half are lower; essentially, it represents the "middle point" of the data set.
- Mode – Check the box to display the mode value(s). Mode is the value that occurred most frequently within the data set.
- Stat Test Mean Scores – Check the box to apply a statistical analysis on the question's score, typically the Mean Score. The appropriate statistical analysis is used based on the selected Reporting Type, number of products, demographic categories, repetitions, question types, etc.
- Stat Test Answers – Check the box to apply a statistical analysis on the question's answers, typically percentages or counts. The appropriate statistical analysis is used based on the selected Reporting Type, number of products, demographic categories, repetitions, question types, etc.
- Non-Parametric Stats – Check this box to enable and run non-parametric stat tests on mean scores, instead of the normal GLM method. This is a statistical method that does not assume the data follows a specific distribution, meaning it can be used on data that is not normally distributed, and instead relies on the ranking or order of the data points rather than their actual values; essentially, it makes minimal assumptions about the underlying population distribution, unlike parametric statistics which require specific distribution assumptions like normality.
- Standard Deviation – Check the box to display the Standard Deviation on Interval and Overall Opinion reporting types. Standard Deviation measures the spread of a data distribution. It measures the typical distance between each data point and the mean. See Standard Deviation in Topline Analysis for further details.
- Show Percent – Check the box to show the responses by percentages of total instead of by counts.
- Box Answers – Check the box to combine the set of answers into two subsets, highest (top box) and lowest (bottom box), and report the subtotal results for the three subsets.
- Correspondence Analysis – Check the box to run CATA (Check-All-That-Apply) Analysis on Multiple Selection, Multiple Selectin Grid and Free Sort questions. See CATA Analysis
- Enable Text Summary – Check the box to enable RedJade AI to automatically summarize your open-ended text question responses. See Text Question Summary Analysis with RedJade AI
- The following additional fields apply to Line Scales questions for use with Descriptive Analysis.
- Time Attribute – Used in line scales when an attribute is rated over specified time periods, such as 0 minutes (or "initial"), 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc.
- Region – Used in line scales and pertains to a physical location relative to the product, such as inside, outside, top or bottom. See Edit Regions for further details and for the steps to edit, add or remove regions.
- Modality – Used in line scales to group attributes by the product's primary forms of sensation, such as appearance (sight), aroma (smell) or flavor (taste). See Edit Modalities for further details and steps to edit, add or remove modalities.
- Frequency Distribution – Numeric responses may be binned. The Frequency Distribution Breakpoints are the bin boundaries.
- When finished with the questionnaire configuration, click on [SAVE].
Configure Reporting in Analyses, Live Results
Reporting selections can also be modified in the Analyses application. The options selected in Analyses, Live Results are used to update the reporting options in the Questionnaire Builder. If a questionnaire is re-opened in Questionnaire Builder, the reporting options last selected in Analyses, Live Results are shown. Reporting selections can be modified at any time, including after data has already been collected.
To specify the reporting parameters from analyses:
- From a test's analysis page, click QUESTIONS from the left sidebar.
Here you can modify the Reporting Name and Reporting Type for each questionnaires. The various questionnaires in the test are tabbed across the top of the page.
If the Test Type is Descriptive then Region, Modality, and Time Attribute can also be modified from here.
- Select the questionnaire name under Topline Analysis from the left sidebar to view the results.
Click the [Table] menu to modify the additional reporting options for each question. These vary depending on the question type. Click to check (enable) or uncheck (disable) each of the options as desired.
Calculations automatically rerun and your results update with the new settings applied. - Click on [Table (apply to all)] from the topline analysis top bar to changes reporting options across all tables within a questionnaire all at once.
Click on each option to cycle through and select the setting to apply:- Ignore – The existing selection for the option is left unchanged on each table.
- Check – The existing selection for the option is checked (enabled) on each table. If the option is not applicable to a table, it gets ignored.
- Uncheck – The existing selection for the option is unchecked (disabled) on each table. If the option is not applicable to a table, it gets ignored.
Click [Apply] to update the selections on all tables. Otherwise, click [Cancel] to clear out the selections and make no changes. To view and modify Analysis Setting, under Topline Analysis from the left sidebar click the settings cog and select Analysis Setting.
SEE ALSO – Set Analyses Default Values for additional details. 
Click [SAVE CHANGES]. Then select the questionnaire name under Topline Analysis from the left sidebar to view the results.
Calculations automatically rerun and your results update with the new settings applied.