Questionnaire

Steps in questionnaire design

1. Determine survey objectives, resources, and constraints 2. Determine data collection method 3. determine question response format 4. decode the question wording 5. establish flow and layout 6. evalute questionnaire 7. obtain apporval 8. pre-test and revise

Criteria for good questionnaire!

Does it provide necessary decision-making information? Does it consider the respondent? Does it meet editing, coding, and data processing requirements?

Flow and Layout

Proper intro, screener questions, general questions first, work questions in middle, sensitive questions last, transitions

Open-ended question +/-

Questions to which the repondnet replies in her or his own words..duh. +: creativity -: vague answers, expensive!!!

Questionnaire

Set of questions designed to generate the data necessary to accomplish the objectives of the research project

question wording

clear, avoid bias, able to answer?, willingness to answer(sensitive questions)?

dichotomous questions

closed-ended questions that ask the respondents to choose between two answers.

editing

going through each questionnaire to ensure that skip patterns were followed and the required questions filled out

closed-ended questions +/-

repsondent chooses from a list of answers. +: cheaper!! -: could be limiting

multiple-choise questions

self-explanatory...

coding

the process of grouping and assigning numeric codes to the various responses to a question