# Survey Participation Before reviewing your survey scores, it is important to consider the percentage of employees who responded to the survey. The goal of the survey administration is to hear from as many employees as possible. The higher the participation rate, the less room there is for questions about how those who did not respond might have impacted the results. A healthy level of participation is 60 percent or better. This allows you to have confidence that you have heard from more than not. If your participation is low (e.g., less than 50 percent), you can still review your results. However, you should exercise some caution about placing too much confidence in the representativeness of the results. When participation is low, it might be prudent to conduct some post-survey focus groups to further validate the results - i.e., to discuss the results with employees to determine if the results, despite low participation, still ring true with your employees. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.talentmap.com/manager-guide-to-employee-engagement/understanding-your-results/survey-participation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.