KoBo Toolbox

The purpose of this Wikibook is to provide an introduction to the mobile survey software suite called KoBo Toolbox (http://www.kobotoolbox.org/). Using the KoBo Toolbox, surveys for mobile Android devices, such as smartphones and tablets, can be created. The screenshot of the Android application shows a typical multiple-choice (single-select) question.

A question in the KoBo App.

Although there are many mobile survey software suites, the KoBo Toolbox is particularly interesting for a number of reasons:

• open-source: free to use and change, fully transparent
• scalability: use multiple devices, aggregate results
• remote administration: results can be synchronized automatically
• robustness: works under difficult conditions, such as limited internet

The topics discussed in this Wikibook are listed below.

KoBoForm

• Creating a Form
• Creating a Question
• Various Question Types
• Validation Logic
• Skip Logic

KoBoCollect

• Exporting the form to an Xform XML file
• Loading the XML file into the KoBo Collect Android app
• Filling out a survey
• Saving the results
• Exporting the results to a computer

Post Processing

• Aggregating the results to a CSV file
• Importing the CSV file into SPSS / PSPP

Advanced Topics

• Trigger questions
• Group questions

KoBo External Resources

• KoBo Toolbox website [1]
• Official KoBo Toolbox User guide [2]
• Official KoBo Toolbox YouTube Channel [3]
• KoBoForm form builder [4]