How come the timestamps of some participants are the same for start and finish? On the second.

Question

A lot of the datasets that are logged have the exact same time stamp for start and finish. How is this possible? Since if a person even starts reading one sentence or so it would need to record some time. Or does it only say that they opened the link but never once clicked on the first NEXT?

Answer 1

There is no Timestamp for "finish" in the data at all. Only a timestamp for the last change of the data set.

If a person only opens up the first page (and then leaves), the start of the interview and the last change are the same. This should usually go along with missing data in the TIME... variables.