Student Pulse Research Methodology

Understand how NGScholars Student Pulse surveys are designed, how responses are reviewed and the limits of voluntary online research.

Student Pulse surveys and polls are voluntary, opt-in research. Unless a report states otherwise, respondents are not a probability sample and results should not be treated as representative of all students in a country or across Africa. We do not assign a conventional margin of error to opt-in samples.

Each published report should be read alongside its specific methodology and limitations.