For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt. This page is also available as Markdown.
5. Export the results
The Export stage shows an overall summary and a per-question breakdown of total responses, code count, and coded responses.
Available downloads are:
Download All Coded Data: a ZIP containing one .xlsx file per question. Each workbook includes respondent ID, response text, and a binary 1 or 0 column for every code.
Code Frame Summary: an .xlsx workbook containing code numbers, labels, descriptions, counts, and percentage of total.
Cleaned Responses: an .xlsx workbook containing cleaning status, quality category, translations, and final response text. This requires a completed cleaning run.
Translation Log: an .xlsx workbook containing original text, detected language, translated text, and translation status. It appears when the completed cleaning output contains translations.
Making changes after coding
You can return to an earlier stage from the coding stepper. Changes may affect later outputs:
Regenerating code frames replaces manual frame changes and invalidates later coding approval, QA, and export state.
Editing assignments may require QA to be run again.
Re-cleaning or refreshing the cleaned dataset can invalidate coding that was sourced from cleaning.
When a change would remove downstream work, Metaforms displays an impact summary before continuing.
