suodatinhenkät

Suodatinhenkät is a term used in Finnish-language discussions of data collection and form design to describe a filter-based questionnaire. The idea is to apply predefined criteria to determine whether a respondent should proceed and which questions they should see.

Origin and meaning: The compound blends suodatin, meaning filter, with a form-related concept used in technical Finnish. The term appears in IT, survey design, and customer data management to refer to screening questionnaires that gate or tailor the survey flow rather than a standalone ordinary questionnaire.

Structure and operation: A suodatinhenkät includes a short set of screening questions and branching logic. Answers trigger rules that gate access to later questions, pre-classify respondents, or direct them to alternative questions or sections. The approach reduces irrelevant questions and helps target follow-up questions or actions, improving both efficiency and data quality.

Applications: It is used in market research, onboarding processes, and customer relationship management systems to route users to appropriate flows, save time for respondents, and improve the relevance and usefulness of collected data.

Implementation considerations: Designers should address privacy and consent, ensure accessibility, and minimize the data collected. Testing and versioning are important to preserve reliable routing, and translations should preserve interpretability across contexts.

See also: screening questions, branching logic, filters, survey design, customer data management.