Compare Retention by Acquisition Source | Dataford Interview Questions

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Problem

NovaPlay wants to compare user retention across acquisition sources. Write a PostgreSQL query to calculate month-1 retention by acquisition source.

A user is considered retained in month 1 if they have at least one session in the calendar month immediately after their signup month.

Requirements

For each acquisition source, count total signed-up users.
Count how many of those users were retained in month 1.
Calculate retention rate as retained_users / total_users, rounded to 4 decimal places.
Include users with NULL acquisition sources and label them as 'Unknown'.
Return results ordered by retention rate descending, then acquisition source ascending.

Schema

users

Column	Type	Description
user_idPK	INT	Unique user identifier
signup_date	DATE	Date the user signed up
acquisition_source	VARCHAR(50)	Marketing or referral source that acquired the user

sessions

Column	Type	Description
session_idPK	INT	Unique session identifier
user_id	INT	User associated with the session
session_date	DATE	Date the session occurred
device_type	VARCHAR(20)	Device used during the session