SurveyToGo: How To Export the Text of an Answer Instead of the Code?

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SurveyToGo: How To Export the Text of an Answer Instead of the Code?

Guide to exporting answer text instead of code—configure per question or survey-wide to export label instead of numeric code.

Aug 3, 2026
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SurveyToGo: How To Export the Text of an Answer Instead of the Code?

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How To Export the Text of an Answer Instead of the Code

Overview

When exporting the data you can either the export with code (Default) or export the Text of the answers.

Update a Single Question

By default, when exporting survey data, the data will contain the coding of the question rather than the corresponding text. This is usually preferred for data analysis.

Example:

Survey Question and Response Text

The Question as Defined in SurveyToGo

In this example, a survey response of “Very good!” will be exported as a "1”.

If you want to export the response text:

On the “Variables” tab of the question, check the “Export Answers as Text” box
Save the survey.

Update all Questions

You can also change all the questions at once as follows:

Right Click on the survey Name in the designer and choose 'Edit Question Props'

In the following window choose the following:

'Check All' - If you would like to change this setting to all questions or click on the questions that you would like to apply this on.
'Change Export As Text' and 'Export As Text'

Then click on 'Apply'

These configurations can also be done after data collection was completed.

Please Note: You can also use the Export UI to export the questions as text - navigate to the 'Data Options' tab and enable the option 'Export all questions as text'

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