What Drives CPI in China Healthcare Online Quant: Seven Brief Details That Move the Price
Two China healthcare briefs can both say "n=150" and arrive at very different cost per interview. The difference is rarely the supplier's margin. It is usually in the details of the brief: who exactly qualifies, how long the survey takes, and how tightly the quotas are drawn.
If you buy online quantitative healthcare sample in China, knowing which details move CPI helps you write a brief that gets a realistic quote the first time, and helps you decide where to loosen a requirement when the budget is fixed. We don't publish a rate card here, because every project is scoped on its own criteria. These are the seven variables that matter most.
1. Who qualifies: specialty and seniority
The most basic driver is how many people in the panel fit your screener. Our China healthcare panel, as of September 30, 2026, lists 34,095 healthcare members, including 31,280 physicians across 16 specialties. A broad specialty is a very different request from a narrow sub-specialty, and a seniority requirement narrows it further. The narrower the profile, the more recruitment effort each complete takes.
2. Respondent type: HCP, nurse, pharmacist, patient or caregiver
Our panel includes physicians, nurses (1,560), pharmacists (766) and technicians (200). Patients and caregivers are different: we recruit them per project, currently with a focus on cardiometabolic conditions such as diabetes and obesity. Per-project recruitment has its own steps, including condition confirmation and consent, so it is scoped differently from drawing on an existing HCP panel. Say clearly which audience you need.
3. Hospital tier and location
73.3% of our panel members work in tertiary hospitals, and 50.8% are in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or Shenzhen. A brief that fits that profile is simpler to field. Quotas for secondary hospitals, smaller cities or specific provinces are possible, but may take longer and cost more, and we will tell you so in the feasibility reply rather than after launch.
4. Length of interview
LOI is one of the clearest levers on both cost and quality. Physicians have little spare time, and a longer survey means a lower response and a higher incentive to keep it fair. If your questionnaire has crept past your target, cutting a section can do more for the budget than any negotiation.
5. Quota depth
A single total is easy. Specialty by hospital tier by city, each with a minimum, is not. Every extra quota cell makes the last completes harder to find. Before you finalise, ask which quotas are essential and which are "nice to have", and mark them as such: hard minimums, soft targets, or natural fall-out.
6. Screener and incidence
A long screener, or one with several stacked criteria (for example a prescribing behaviour and a patient-volume threshold), means we invite more people to find each qualified one. Where you can, state the criteria in a way that can be checked from profile data first, then confirmed in the screener. We reconfirm the eligibility conditions that matter for each study during recruitment.
7. Quality rules and field window
Strict in-field checks, such as completion time, logic and open-end review, are worth having, and they should be agreed up front so replacements and final counts are not a surprise. A short field window or a tight deadline also affects how many people can be reached in time. Allow for holidays, as covered in our earlier piece on timing.
A budget-first way to brief
If your budget is fixed, tell us at the start. We can then show which of the seven variables to adjust, for example a wider seniority band, a shorter LOI or fewer quota cells, and what each change does to feasibility. That is quicker than going through several quote revisions.
What to include in your RFQ
- Audience and specialty (and seniority, if relevant)
- Target N and any minimums per quota cell
- Hospital tier and region requirements
- LOI and the topic of the survey
- Screener criteria
- Field window, and any budget guide
Send us your criteria
Share your brief at RFQ@youli.tech. We'll come back within 1 business day with an initial feasibility view, including limitations and alternatives where the brief is tight.
Youli Global Limited / 北京有礼科技有限公司
