We’ve created several XLSForm surveys for you to download and use as a starting point. All of these XLSForms can also be found in the Starter Forms project. Feel free to download the XLSForms below from Google Drive to try them out on your own.
Household Characteristics
Preview (Enketo Webform) · Download XLSForm (Google Drive)
Category: Shelter
Unique features: geopoint, image, Likert widget (Enketo webform only)
This form is meant for household visits with questions on inhabitants and building characteristics and materials.
Monthly Community Interest Group (CIG) Report
Preview (Enketo Webform) · Download XLSForm (Google Drive)
Category: livelihood
Unique features: cascade selects, skip logic, signature widget, constraints, calculations
This form is meant for a monthly report on the performance of various micro-projects (e.g., banana growing, rabbit rearing, peanut processing, etc.) within a community and the benefits in income and living amongst the community members.
Baseline Household
Preview (Enketo Webform) · Download XLSForm (Google Drive)
Unique features: repeats, repeat counts, indexed-repeats
Conduct a baseline survey of all households in an area, recording the GPS location of the household and relevant information on each household member. This form is best used with ODK Collect; repeat count and indexed-repeat functions are not supported in Enketo.
Antenatal Care (ANC) Visit
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Category: Health
Unique features: skip logic, constraints, advanced calculations
This form records a pregnant woman’s health information and vitals during routine antenatal care (ANC) visits.
Fatal Injury Surveillance Report
Preview (Enketo Webform) · Download XLSForm (Google Drive)
Category: Health
Unique features: grid theme in Enketo
This form is an adaptation of the WHO fatal injury reporting form.
Malaria Spraying Structures
Preview (Enketo Webform) · Download XLSForm (Google Drive)
Category: environment
Unique features: cascade selects, advanced constraints, geopoint, instance name
This form is used to record coverage of insecticide spraying for malaria prevention.
Household Water Usage and Practices
Preview (Enketo Webform) · Download XLSForm (Google Drive)
Category: Water
Unique features: cascade selects, Likert widget (Enketo webform only)
This form is used to survey water usage and practices at the household level.
Additional Sample XLSForms
The table below contains additional forms that highlight various aspects of form authoring in terms of types of syntax and different calculation that are used in form authoring.
| Syntax/Atttribute | Description | XLSForm Link | Enketo Webform Link |
| Calculation | A form demonstrating the answer from the addition of previous responses | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating the If function in a form | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| A form demonstrating the repeat count in a group | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| A form showing how to calculate the date and time in a form | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Repeats & Groups | A form demonstrating a group of questions that repeat | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating an action that randomly assigns questions to respondents | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| A form demonstrating how questions are ordered randomly | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Use of Barcode | A form demonstrating the printing function via string | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating a barcode capture and pulling data from a linked dataset/csv | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Styling & Appearance | A form demonstrating how to apply different syntax types to incorporate how your Form will appear to the Interface/view (bold, italics, etc) | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating how to apply the appearance column to have different structures in your Form (likert, horizontal, etc) | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Use of Choices | A form demonstrating choice names picked and a calculation shown | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating the choice filter function for select_multiple questions | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| A form demonstrating how you can rank options from a select-multiple question | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Column Attributes | A form demonstrating how to apply different constraint types | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating how to apply a constraint to restrict the number of choices selected and show a constraint message | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| A form demonstrating how to apply a relevant function to skip or show a group/question | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Use of Selects | A form demonstrating how a set condition on a select question affects how the next question will appear or be displayed | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |
| A form demonstrating how to avoid a None option from being selected together with other answer choices in a select-multiple question | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform | |
| Encrypting a form | A form demonstrating how to encrypt a form using the public key | Download XLSForm | Preview Enketo Webform |