Questionnaires

Questionnaires

1. Definition

   • While questionnaires can be very detailed, covering many subjects or issues, they can also be very simple and focus on one important area. A simple yet effective

2. Types

   • – the mail survey, the group-administered questionnaire, and the household drop-off survey. The mail survey

3. Data analysis

   • It is often useful to obtain an average score in scaled or Likert-type questions in order to compare across questions.

4. Issues

   • The provision of short and clear instructions to the respondent, at relevant places in the questionnaire, can generate more useful and reliable data. If zero is a meaningful answer at some point in your questionnaire, make this clear to those completing.

5. Uses

   • We often require information on a range of subjects and to obtain that information we may be required to ask people questions. Questionnaires can be designed and used to collect vast quantities of data from a variety of respondents.

6. Limitations

   • Questionnaires are successfully used in many situations to gather data and information on a broad range of issues, but they do have application and data-collection limitations, most of which are the product of poor design in the instrument.