In finance, a “NET” is an amount minus expenses or fees; In research reporting, a “NET” is an amount minus duplicates. In many cases, a NET will be shown for the combination of responses to a particular question (like, “Top-3 Box”, where there are no duplicates and it’s simply a sum of responses) or for a combination of sentiments (like, in the case of an open-ended question, someone may express multiple sentiments in the same response which can all be counted separately, but would only count once when showing a NET of similar responses).