You have distributed a paper-based form using SurveyGold and you have collected a large set of completed paper questionnaires. At first it might appear that the only way to get those responses entered into SurveyGold is to have one person sit down and manually enter the responses one at a time into SurveyGold. While this is one way to do it, there is an easier way if you get other people involved.

The following tip describes an inexpensive and efficient way to allow others to assist you in doing data entry for large numbers of paper-based survey responses.

STEP 1
Launch SurveyGold and select the Setup Survey tab. Save your survey as a web survey form by right-clicking on your survey and selecting the Save As Web Form popup menu item.

	Select the "Record" processing option.
	Make sure to uncheck the checkbox entitled "Detect and prohibit multiple submissions from the same respondent."
	Also, click the Advanced button and check the checkbox entitled "Include a "Clear All Responses" button to reset the web survey form".

STEP 2
Distribute your web survey form to any number of data entry personnel. You can do this any of the following ways:

	Send it to them as an email attachment
	Place it on a web site (intranet or public web site
	Place it on a commonly accessible network folder
	Burn it to a CD
	Copy it to a USB drive

Note: The data entry work can be done from anywhere, not just on the computer where SurveyGold is installed. For example, it can be done at someone's home, a dorm room, a coffee shop, etc.)

STEP 3
Provide each data entry person with a portion of the stack of paper survey forms to enter. For each paper form, have the data entry person enter the responses from the paper form into the web survey form. Then have them click Submit Your Responses to process the responses. The responses are recorded on SurveyGold.com for later downloading into your copy of SurveyGold.

STEP 4
Have your data entry person then click the browser's BACK button to redisplay the web survey form just submitted. The previous responses will still be in the form. Have the data entry person click the "Clear All Responses" button to clear the responses. They can then proceed with entering the responses from the next paper form. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all of their paper forms are entered.

STEP 5
When you are ready to view the results in SurveyGold, simply click on the Get Web Responses button in the Conduct Survey tab. SurveyGold will automatically download submitted web survey responses from SurveyGold.com and then import them into your copy of SurveyGold whereby you can view and analyze the results.