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title: View Breakdowns
slug: salpulse-user-guide/view-breakdowns
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createdAt: 2024-07-08T05:33:23.661Z
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Note: This function is only accessable by your Salpulse Administrator(s) and your  [Insights Users](docId\:BSKRJyhudgmrkxfo1u4PI).
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To view the breakdowns of survey results for your organisation, select the [Pulse](https://app.salpulse.com/pulse) menu item and click the ***Breakdowns*** toggle on. The results section will then switch from the overall dials of the currently selected survey and node, to the ***Breakdowns Table ***for the currently selected survey and node:

![Breakdowns table by departments (or regions, or teams) in a Salpulse culture survey](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/JIBbX60uyU8EEhh2IsyiQ/8zNYR4jWCmYWLqzVVEutw_breakdowns-1.png)

## Switching Between Views

If you have [setup breakdown views](docId\:R0_19-Plx6xsTUDXb7TlV) for your organisation, you will be able to switch between these views using the `View` dropdown:

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## The Breakdowns Table

The first column of the Breakdowns Table contains the node details. Hover over a question entry to see the full question. The second column containing histogram icons, if present, can be used to see the histogram distributions for that question. The third column is the overall score for the entire organisation. If a comparison survey is selected, the scores will also have comparison indicators following it. Hover over the score to see the details of the comparison score.

Following the overall column, the breakdowns table will have breakdown columns that match the [setup](https://docs.salple.com/salpulse-user-guide/setup-breakdowns#Mg601). If too many columns are in the setup to display, scroll the table left and right to see additional columns.

The first row of each column contains the number of employees filtered by that column definition (called a cohort). Note, this is the total number of employees in the cohort, ***not*** the number of people in the cohort who have completed the survey.

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Note: To preserve the anonymity of your employees' survey responses, the column data will not show unless it represents 4 or more people.
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![Anonymity of users in a breakdown for culture measurement in Salpulse](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/JIBbX60uyU8EEhh2IsyiQ/MIyRBAwn26EIhsvpmrEI0_breakdowns-8.png)

## Comparitor Marks

In the cells of the breakdowns table, if you have selected a [survey to compare to](docId:-5br9_vLDKIHED5dYimG8), you will see comparitor marks, along with a numeric indicator of the amount the score has changed since the *compared to* surey:

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Note: If there were no users in a cohort at the time of the closing of the *compared to* survey, the comparitor mark will not show in that column.
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## Viewing Histograms of Breakdown Results

To view histograms of the breakdown results for a question, click on the histogram icon next to the question text:

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This opens the histogram results for this question:

![Histograms of breakdown results in a Salpulse culture survey](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/JIBbX60uyU8EEhh2IsyiQ/oy0YH21Bba-G4zEzB1LDO_breakdowns-11.png)

Hover over any bar to see how many responses in that category for that cohort. Note that scores and percentages relate to the ***number*** of responses received for the question, ***not the total size*** of the cohort.