Slider question · Rating

Slider questions

Let people drag a handle, or type a number, anywhere on your range, such as 0 to 100. Nothing counts until they choose. You see the spread as a histogram, with the mean, median and standard deviation.

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The Slider question as respondents see it on a laptop and a phone

Live demo

Move it, or type it. Your answer joins the results.

This is the question your respondents get. Drag the handle, use the arrow keys or type a number, and the histogram beside it recalculates with your answer counted.

How confident are you that you’ll reach your savings goal this year?

Not at all confidentCompletely confident

0–100

Prefer not to say

In action

The slider question in action

0:00The slider starts empty: a dash where the number goes, and a faded handle.
0:03A respondent drags to 72, then nudges it to 70 with the arrow keys.
0:06A second respondent types 35 in the box and presses Enter.
0:09On a phone, a third scrolls the page with a thumb on the track. Nothing is recorded. Then they drag to 60.
0:12All three join the histogram. The mean and SD update, and the median stays at 50.

Every feature

Everything the slider question can do

Your range and step, a number box under every slider, nothing recorded until people choose, and results that show the whole spread.

Build it your waySet-up in the builder.

LiveFree

Your range, your step

Set Min, Max and Step: 0 to 100 in ones, 0 to 10 in halves, or 0 to 2,000 in fifties. The step sets the decimals, and values never pick up stray digits.

LiveFree

Labels at both ends

A Low Label and a High Label sit under the ends of the track, and translate with the survey.

LiveFree

A start position is only a hint

Leave Start position blank and the slider starts empty. Set one and the handle starts there, but nothing is recorded until the person moves it, types a value or presses Use this value.

LiveFree

Minutes shown as hours

Set Show value as to Time, and a minutes slider reads “4 hours 15 min” while the data keeps the minutes.

The hours and minutes words come in English and Spanish only.

LiveFree

Ways to decline

Tick Non-answer options for Don’t know and Prefer not to answer, rename them, or add Refused and your own. They’re kept out of the mean and shown as their own rows in Results and crosstabs.

LiveFree

Required, soft required or optional

Required by default. A soft-required slider warns once before a skip, and an optional one can be left alone.

LiveFree

Branch, set quotas or compute on the number

Show a follow-up when the answer is below 30, fill a quota for 70 and up, or use the number in a formula. Greater than, less than and between all work.

The survey-level skip and branching panel is on Professional+.

LiveFree

Import from Excel or Qualtrics

A SLIDER row in a sheet, or a Qualtrics Slider question, comes in as a slider.

From Qualtrics, the min and max come across; set the step and labels after importing.

On the respondent’s screenWhat people answering see and use.

LiveFree

Starts empty

An untouched slider shows a dash and a faded handle, and stores nothing. A required one can’t be skipped.

LiveFree

Made for thumbs

A 44px handle to drag, and a tap on the track jumps there. A vertical scroll that starts anywhere on the slider, the handle included, just scrolls the page, and a drag the phone cancels stops where it is.

LiveFree

Every value by keyboard

Arrow keys move one step, Page Up and Page Down move ten steps, and Home and End jump to the ends.

LiveFree

Type an exact value

A number box under every slider, labelled with the range. Type 35, press Enter, and the handle moves there. A value off the range or step gets a short message.

Try it in the demo above: type a number and press Enter.

LiveFree

One tap to decline

A non-answer button under the slider, such as Prefer not to say. Picking it sets the slider aside until it’s unpicked.

LiveFree

Checked when it’s saved

Every answer is checked again on the server: inside the range, on the step, and a non-answer code the question really has.

LiveFree

Your theme, light or dark

Track, handle and readout follow the survey’s theme and dark mode.

In your analysisResults, crosstabs and tab books.

LiveFree

The whole spread in Results

A histogram of the rated answers in ten equal bins across your range, with the mean, median and standard deviation, and each non-answer as its own row, counted in the base.

LiveFree

Filter by a range

Filter Results to people who answered in a range, such as 70 to 100, to see what the confident say elsewhere.

LiveFree

Track the mean wave by wave

Trend the slider’s mean across waves, or use it as the outcome in a key-driver analysis.

LiveSolo+

Mean by any group

Put the slider in the rows against age, region or any banner, with the mean of rated answers per column and a row for each non-answer.

LiveProfessional+

Test the differences

Letters mark where one group’s mean is significantly higher than another’s, by Welch’s t-test.

LiveResearch Team

Range tables in tab books

Each slider gets a table of up to five ranges with the mean, median and standard deviation across your banner.

The ranges are worked out from the data, so they can shift between waves.

LiveResearch Team

Weighted when you weight

Weights carry through to the histogram and statistics in Results, crosstabs and tab books.

In your dataWhat lands in your exports.

LiveFree

One column per slider

The column holds the number each person chose, named by the question’s number, such as Q1.

LiveFree

Non-answers keep a code

A non-answer exports as its code, such as PNTA, never a blank. SPSS (Professional+) gets a labelled number outside your range that you can declare missing.

LiveProfessional+

Scale in SPSS

The slider is a numeric variable measured as scale, labelled with the question.

LiveFree

Minutes stay minutes

A time slider exports raw minutes, ready to sum or average.

Not part of a slider yet: dashboard tiles and report slides, a unit label such as % or $ next to the number, labels along the middle of the track, and a Not applicable choice (use a non-answer option instead). For one slider per row, use a slider list.

Choosing

Slider or rating scale?

Both ask “how much”. A slider is for a position on a long range. A rating scale is for a few labelled points.

Slider · Free
Not at all confident72Completely confident
Pick a slider when
- The answer is a point on a long range, such as 0 to 100, a price or a number of minutes.
- Small differences matter, and you’ll report a mean, a median and the spread.
- Two end labels are enough to explain the range.
Rating Scale · Free
12345
Not at allCompletely
Pick a rating scale when
- Five to eleven points are enough, and you want a label on each one.
- Some people can’t answer, and you want a “Not applicable” choice beside the points.
- You want the result on a dashboard or in a report deck. Sliders aren’t there yet.

Asking how likely someone is to recommend you, from 0 to 10? Use NPS, which scores it for you. Rating several things on the same range? Use a slider list (Professional+).

Build it

Add a slider question

1
Add the question
In the builder, add a question and choose Slider from the Rating group. Write the question so the range makes sense, such as “How confident are you that you’ll reach your savings goal this year?”
2
Set the range and step
Under Min, Max and Step, keep 0, 100 and 1, or set your own: 0 to 10 in steps of 0.5, or 0 to 2,000 in steps of 50. The step also sets the decimals.
3
Label the ends
Type a Low Label and a High Label, such as “Not at all confident” and “Completely confident”. They show under each end of the track.
4
Leave the start position empty
Leave Start position blank so the slider starts empty. If you set one, the handle starts there as a hint, and nothing is recorded until the person moves it, types a value or presses Use this value.
5
Add a way to decline
Tick Non-answer options to add Don’t know and Prefer not to answer. Rename them, delete one, or use Add option for more. They’re kept out of the mean.
6
Set the rules and preview
In Rules, keep it required, or make it soft required or optional. Preview on a phone, and try typing a value too.

The Slider editor for “How confident are you that you’ll reach your savings goal this year?”: Min 0, Max 100 and Step 1, Show value as Number, Start position blank with its “Untouched” placeholder, Low Label “Not at all confident” and High Label “Completely confident”, and Non-answer options ticked with Prefer not to say coded PNTA, beside the survey preview of the same question, empty, with its number box and the Prefer not to say button — EditorRange, step, labels and start position in one place.

Non-answer options ticked, with one row: Prefer not to say beside its code PNTA, and Add option under it — Non-answersA way to decline, kept out of the mean.

The builder’s phone preview of the same slider, empty: a dash and “drag or type to answer”, the faded handle at the start of the track, the two end labels, the 0–100 box with “Enter a value”, and the Prefer not to say button — Phone previewThumb-sized, with a box to type in.

The data you get

One column, holding the number

Each slider gets one column with the value each person chose. A non-answer keeps its own code, so it never looks like a skip, and SPSS gets the slider as a scale variable.

respondent_id	Q1Savings confidence
47762a85-0001-4000-8000-000000000001	22
47762a85-0002-4000-8000-000000000002	50
47762a85-0003-4000-8000-000000000003	20
47762a85-0004-4000-8000-000000000004	53
47762a85-0005-4000-8000-000000000005	PNTA
47762a85-0006-4000-8000-000000000006	70
47762a85-0007-4000-8000-000000000007	PNTA
47762a85-0008-4000-8000-000000000008	52

Trimmed to the question’s column. The name under the header is for reading here; the file holds the column name only. PNTA is the code of the “Prefer not to say” button. Every export also carries the standard respondent columns (status, timing, weight and more).

One column per slider

Named by the question’s number, such as Q1. Rewording the question never renames it.

The number they chose

Exactly the value on screen, to the step’s decimals. A time slider exports minutes.

Non-answers keep a code

“Prefer not to say” is PNTA in CSV and Excel and 994 in SPSS, never a blank and never a number on your range.

Scale in SPSS

A numeric variable measured as scale, labelled with the question, ready for means and regressions.

Weighting

Weighted exports fill the weight column with each person’s weight, and the SPSS syntax sets WEIGHT BY weight. Weighting is on Research Team.

Charts & analysis

See the whole spread, then compare groups

Every slider is charted for you as a histogram, with the mean, median and standard deviation beside it. Crosstab the mean by any group and test the differences.

The Surveti Results card for “How confident are you that you’ll reach your savings goal this year?” with the pill SLIDER: tiles for a mean of 53.17, a median of 50, an SD of 18.75 and 186 rated of 200 responses, then ten bars from 0–9 to 90–100, each labelled with its share of everyone who answered, the tallest 50–59, with a dashed line at the mean, Prefer not to say under Non-answers (counted in the base) with 14 · 7%, and “n = 200 completed responses” — ResultsMost people are around the middle. 16% of people who rated chose exactly 50, so the median sits at 50 while the mean is 53.17. The ten bins show where the rest are: the tallest is 50–59. Each bar’s share is of everyone who answered, Prefer not to say included.

Where it charts

ResultsHistogram, mean, median, SD
CrosstabsMean by any banner
Tab booksRanges, mean, median, SD
ExportsOne column per slider
DashboardNot yet
Report deckNot yet

A Surveti tab-book table of “How confident are you that you’ll reach your savings goal this year?” by age: Total, 18–34, 35–54 and 55+ lettered A to C, a Base row of 186, 64, 58 and 64, a row for each range from “0 to 19” to “80 or more” with its count above its column percentage, then the mean, median and standard deviation to two decimals, significance letters under the cells that differ, and the footnote on the letter levels — Tab bookThe same slider in a tab book, on Research Team. The ranges are worked out from the data, in steps of equal width, with the last left open: here that makes five ranges, from “0 to 19” to “80 or more”. Then come the mean, median and standard deviation, to two decimals. The base is everyone who gave a number, 186 of 200, so Prefer not to say is left out. Most of 18–34 answered “40 to 59” (59%, against 41% and 36%), so the cell carries bC: b over 35–54 at 95% and C over 55+ at 99%. The 55+ mean carries A, as in the crosstab.

Savings confidence, by ageMean of rated answers, letters at 95% and 99%

Crosstabs · Solo+Letters · Professional+

The Surveti Crosstabs view of “How confident are you that you’ll reach your savings goal this year?” by “What is your age?”: Total, 18–34, 35–54 and 55+ lettered A to C, a Base (n) row of 200, 71, 64 and 65, a Prefer not to say row in column percentages and a Mean row to one decimal, letters beside the cells that differ, a caution note on each age group’s base, and the legend for uppercase and lowercase letters — The mean is over the people who gave a number; Base (n) counts everyone who answered. Prefer not to say is a share of everyone who answered and stays out of the mean. A letter marks a figure significantly higher than the column with that letter, uppercase at 99% and lowercase at 95%. 55+ answers average 57.9, against 48.9 for 18–34, so the 55+ mean carries A; 35–54’s 52.7 carries no letter. 18–34 and 35–54 choose Prefer not to say more often than 55+, so each carries c. Letters need Professional+. The table itself needs Solo+, and without letters it still runs.

Analysis that applies

Crosstabs
Solo+
Put the slider in the rows against age, region or any banner. Each column gets the mean of its rated answers, and a row for each non-answer.
Crosstabs
Significance letters
Professional+
Welch’s t-test on the means and a test of proportions on each non-answer row, on effective bases, in the same table.
Significance testing
Tab books
Research Team
Every slider gets a table of up to five ranges with the mean, median and standard deviation across your banner, letters included.
Weighting
Research Team
Weights carry through to the histogram and statistics in Results, to crosstabs and tab books. Weighted exports fill the weight column.

How Surveti compares

Slider questions across the common survey tools

Slider capabilities in Surveti, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, Typeform and Alchemer, as of 30 October 2026
Capability	Surveti	SurveyMonkey	Qualtrics	Typeform	Alchemer
Slider on the free (or entry) plan	yesEvery plan	unclear^{2, 3, 10}No label on the page; a snippet says paid	yes¹⁸One of eight free-account types	no²⁵No slider question	yes⁴¹Every licence; no free plan
Decimal values	yesThe step sets them: 0.5, 0.1	no^{1, 2}Whole numbers only	yes¹²Decimals setting	no²⁴	unclear^{31, 32}Not stated
Type an exact number	yesA number box under every slider	yes¹Numeric input box by default	partial^{12, 22}Typed boxes documented for constant-sum sliders only	no	partial³²Value shown; typing not documented
Untouched handle isn’t an answer	yesEven with a start position: moved, typed or confirmed only	yes^{1, 3}Unanswered until moved; Clear button	partial¹²A start position becomes the answer	no	yes^{31, 33}Must interact
A non-answer kept apart from a skip in the data	yesIts own code; a labelled SPSS number	unclear¹No N/A documented	no^{12, 23}N/A stored blank	no	yes³⁴Exports “not applicable”
Phone behaviour documented	yesA vertical scroll on the slider just scrolls	unclear^{1, 2}Preview advised	yes¹²Mobile Friendly setting	no	yes^{31, 32}Labels move below on mobile
Keyboard operation documented	yesArrows, Page Up/Down, Home/End	partial¹Typed box; no keyboard statement	unclear^{12, 15}Not described	no	no³⁷“Difficult for keyboard-only respondents”
Median and standard deviation	yesIn Results and tab books	unclear¹Average only documented	yes^{16, 20}Statistics table	no²⁸	partial³²Legacy report, Slider List
Histogram of answers	yesTen bins across your range	unclear¹Not covered	partial^{12, 20}With snapping; Stats iQ is paid	no	yes³⁵Histogram by default
Sliders in crosstabs	paidMean per column · Solo+	no⁷Not a crosstab type	unclear^{17, 18}Not mentioned; not on free	no³⁰	unclear³⁸Not in the compatible list
Significance tests on slider means	paidWelch’s t · Professional+	no⁸Not in Compare Rules	partial^{17, 18}Tests of averages; not on free	no³⁰	unclear³⁸Chi-square and proportions only
SPSS export with the slider as a scale variable	paidNumeric, scale measure · Professional+	partial⁹Its rule would make it nominal	partial^{12, 18}Measure level not documented	no²⁹No SPSS export	unclear³⁹Not covered; Full Access

As of 30 Oct 2026, from each vendor’s public help pages and pricing. Typeform has no slider question.yespartialpaidunclearno

Partial means partly built in or possible only with a documented workaround; paid means built in on paid tiers or licences only; unclear means the vendor’s docs don’t settle it. Typeform’s closest question is Opinion Scale, a row of 5 to 11 buttons to tap. Google Forms, QuestionPro and SurveySparrow were also reviewed. Google Forms has no slider; its linear scale runs from 0 or 1 up to 10. QuestionPro has numeric and text sliders that start at the left by default, with the start position on its Advanced licence and up. SurveySparrow has a slider with thermometer, smiley and gauge styles.

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