{"id":550,"date":"2015-10-30T20:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:50:07","slug":"quotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/30\/quotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Quota: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A limitation of some kind on how many respondents of a certain type are allowed to complete a survey.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Soft Quotas: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quotas set to 9999 so they don\u2019t have a max. \u00a0These will be tracked on the counter and can be edited in the Quota Management System. \u00a0Soft quotas are a good option if there may be a need to add the quota while the study is fielding but it is not needed at the beginning of fielding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Hard Quotas: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also called max quotas. These are quotas that do not allow any additional qualified respondents into a survey after a certain number of completes is reached.=<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Minimum Quotas:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are quotas that do not have a cap, but aim to achieve a minimum requirement. An overall quota must be programmed along with a minimum quota in order for it to work properly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\">The example below shows that the Quota Group Age 25-34 has a minimum set that has not been reached. This means based on the grid below that since the Minimum Quota still has not yet been met that only 10 more respondents for the Quota Group Age 25-34 will be allowed to access the study. All others will be over quota:<\/p>\n<table width=\"226\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"98\">Quota Group<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Minimum Quota<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Completes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"98\">Age 25-34<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">30<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"98\">Age 35-49<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">0<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"98\">Ages 50-64<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">0<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"98\">Total Completes<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"98\">Overall Total Quota<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Nested Minimums: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is when you have 2 (or more) grids that depend on each other and they have minimum quotas on each. An example of this:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Total &#8211; 50<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Seg A &#8211; min 20<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Seg B &#8211; min 20<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Seg A Male &#8211; min 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Seg A Female &#8211; min 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Seg B Male &#8211; min 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 300px;\">Seg B Female &#8211; min 5<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Multi Select Question with Quotas: <\/strong>With a multi select question that has quotas, respondents can qualify for more than one quota group so you may see overages for a quota even when a maximum is set. This is because they are qualifying for other options + the capped option.<\/li>\n<li><b>Soft Launch Quotas: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A quota that is usually used in the early stages of a survey right after it goes live. These are hard quotas until they are removed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Quota Bucket or Group: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A specific group of respondents for quota purposes. The bucket is considered \u201cfull\u201d when its quota is met.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Quota Checks: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once a respondent qualifies, the quota structure is checked to determine if there is still room to allow them to complete.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Quota Recheck Inactivity Time: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To prevent qualified abandons that may never complete the survey from filling a quota group, respondents who have been inactive for a specified period of time (default is 2 hours) will not be counted toward overage tolerance, thus allowing new respondents to qualify if their quota group is still open. When respondents who have been inactive for the specified period of time attempt to return to the survey, they will only be allowed to continue if their quota group is still open.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Updated 4\/21\/25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quota: A limitation of some kind on how many respondents of a certain type are allowed to complete a survey. Soft Quotas: Quotas set to 9999 so they don\u2019t have a max. \u00a0These will be tracked on the counter and can be edited in the Quota Management System. \u00a0Soft quotas are a good option if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[48,94,114,245,246,247,248,249,426,427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.jibunu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}