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title: Answered vs. Skipped Questions | SurveyLegend
description: This guide explains how Answered and Skipped totals work in Live
  Analytics, including incomplete responses and questions bypassed by survey
  logic.
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# What does ‘answered’ and ‘skipped’ mean in analytics

In Live Analytics, each question card has a footer bar. In the footer bar, you will two numbers, ladled as **Answered**, and **Skipped**. This simply indicates how many participants have answered and how many have skipped answering that specific question.

## But I had a **required question** which was skipped, how?

1. **The way we collect data: **Don’t forget that SurveyLegend collects and stores respondents’ answers in real-time. Sometimes respondent answer a few questions in the beginning of your survey, and then get tired or distracted and never finish the survey. In this case, our system collects their responses for the first a few questions, and marks the other ones as “skipped”, since they never answered them.
2. **The way logic flows work: **Most of the times, [survey logic](https://www.surveylegend.com/user-guide/survey-logic/) is used to hide, show, or skip certain questions in a survey. However, questions which are ‘hidden’ or ‘skipped’ may be originally required questions. But the logic always wins, and can “hide” a question for respondents. In such cases, even if the question is required, it will be marked as ‘skipped’ in your collected data.