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# Export media survey data
If you want to share data from your study outside of Dscout, you have several options to export it. You can export study responses, customize crosstab analysis, and more.
**To export media survey data:**
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Navigate to the **Responses** tab of your study.
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Click the **Export mission data** button in the top right corner. The export modal is displayed.
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Choose what you want to export.
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Click **Download selected**. A progress modal is displayed.
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When prompted, click **Download** in the progress modal to complete your export.
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Refer to the sections below for information on what options are available on each tab of the export modal.
## Basic
From the **Basic** tab of the export modal, you can download full participant responses (.csv files), session recordings (.mp4 files), and more. Here, make a selection and click **Download selected** to complete your export. When prompted, click **Download** in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
| Option | Description |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Entry data** (.csv) | Download a spreadsheet that includes:
- Participant information.
- Study questions and responses.
- Screener questions and responses (if applicable).
- AI themes (if generated prior to export).
Note: Participant emails are only included for studies in which you invited your own participants. They are not included for participants recruited from Dscout's available panels.
Download a spreadsheet that includes your study’s open-ended questions as well as their AI summaries.
Note: AI summaries must be generated for your study before you can export them. For more information, see AI summaries.
Download a .zip file containing every chart from your study in .png format.
These are the charts you see when viewing responses by question in your study. For example, multiple choice questions and their associated bar charts.
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| **Entry photos and videos** (.zip) | Download a .zip file containing all photos and videos submitted as part of participant responses.
Photos export in .jpg files and videos export in .mp4 files.
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| **Mission stimuli** (.zip) | Download a .zip file containing all stimuli provided to participants throughout the study.
This export does not include any data from participant responses. It only includes the stimuli you added to questions when designing your study.
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## Print/PDF
On the **Print/PDF** tab of the export modal, you can customize a PDF version of your data to export. Here, select how you want your PDF to be formatted and click **Download select** to export your PDF. When prompted, click **Download** in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
| Option | Description |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Layout** | Determines how many responses appear on a given page of your exported PDF. By default, PDFs include one response per page. |
| **Sorting** | Determines the order in which responses are sorted in your exported PDF. Select from the following options:
- Participants: Sorts responses in alphabetical order based on participant first names.
- Newest to oldest: Sorts responses in the order they were received, with newest responses first.
- Oldest to newest: Sorts responses in the order they were received, with oldest responses first.
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| **Included data** | Determines which data from each response is included in your exported PDF. Select from the following options:
- Participant name and profile picture.
- Entry responses.
- Researcher notes and highlights.
- Extended participant demographics.
- Tags.
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## Crosstab
Cross tab analysis can be useful if you want to understand the relationship between two factors in your study. For example, maybe you want to see how many people of a certain age gave a particular answer to a question. Or maybe you want to see how many people in a certain state responded a certain way. You can do that with a crosstab export.
On the **Crosstab** tab of the export modal, make your selections and click **Download selected** to export your crosstab as a .csv file. When prompted, click **Download** in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
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**Tip:** For best results, choose a piece of study data (**Answers** or **Tags**) to display in either your rows or columns and a piece of participant data (**Participants** or below in the provided list) in the other. This gives you a known constant about your participants and a variable from your study to compare it to.
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| Option | Description |
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| **Answers** | Displays every possible answer to your study questions. |
| **Tags** | Displays all researcher-created tags in your study. This option also includes AI notable moments (usability tests only) and AI themes if generated for your study.
Note: Tags are counted once per participant. For example, if you tag two questions from the same participant with Tag A, that participant will still only be counted once when generating your crosstab.
Displays the following options, counting the number of participants who fall into each group as it relates to your other selection(s):
- Prefer not to say.
- Prefer to self-identify.
- Non-binary.
- Man.
- Woman.
- N/A.
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| **Home city** | Displays the home cities provided by participants across your study, counting the number of participants who reside in each as it relates to your other selection(s). |
| **Home country** | Displays the home countries provided by participants across your study, counting the number of participants who reside in each as it relates to your other selection(s). |
| **Demographics** | Displays other demographics, like education level, employment status, and more, counting the number of participants who each applies to as it relates to your other selection(s). |
## Tags
On the **Tags** tab of the export modal, you can download your data using a structure based on any tags you’ve added throughout your study responses. You can download count data for each tag, tagged responses themselves, and more. Here, make a selection and click **Download selected** to complete your export. When prompted, click **Download** in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
| Option | Description |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Tag counts** (.csv) | Download a .csv file that includes a list of every tag in your study as well as the number of responses, participants, and entries it’s applied to. |
| **Tagged responses** (.csv) | Download a .csv file that includes all responses that have been given a tag in your study. |
| **Tag groups and tags** (.csv) | Download a .csv file that includes a list of all tags in your study as well as the tag group they’ve been added to. Tags without tag groups will be labeled **Ungrouped**. |
## Past exports
On the **Past exports** tab of the export modal, you can view a history of previous exports that have been completed in your study. This is useful if you want to quickly re-download a file you’ve downloaded in the past or if you want to see what data your collaborators have exported. To download a past export, click the download icon beside it on the list.
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**Note:** Past exports are only kept for two weeks after their original export date. If an export occurred more than two weeks ago, you’ll have to configure it again using the settings described above.
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