Survey Questions
Now your turn!
1. Think of a topic to create a survey for the population of PHG. 2. Choose a sample to survey. 3.Create a circle map. in the center write your topic. 4. Research your topic online and list what type of information you would like to gather about your topic. 5. Check with Ms. Fortune to approve your topic.
What the two types of questions?
A survey question can be: • Open-ended • Closed-ended (the person chooses from one of several options)
Which is easier: Open or closed ended question?
Closed ended questions are much easier to total up later on, but may stop people giving an answer they really want.
What is a Closed-ended question?
Closed-ended (the person chooses from one of several options)
Example 2: Now you know why you are doing a survey, start writing down the questions you will ask! Just write down any questions you think may be useful. Don't worry about quality at this stage, we will improve your list of questions later.
Example: Questions you could ask for the river survey: • Does pollution worry you? • Do you ever go down to the river? • Can you spare some money to help the river? • Have you noticed the pollution in the river? • Are you happy to volunteer for river cleanup? • When would you be available to help? • How should we clean up the river? • etc...
Example 4: "How often do you visit the river?"
Make it Closed-ended with the following options: • Nearly every day • At least 5 times a year • 1 to 4 times a year • Almost never You can present this data in a neat bar graph.
Example 3: "What do you think is the best way to clean up the river?"
Make it Open-ended: the answers won't be easy to put in a table or graph, but you may get some good ideas, and there may be some good quotes for your report.
What is an Open-ended question?
Open-ended (the person can answer in any way they want)
How to make a good Questionnaire!
The first question is one you should ask yourself: "What do I hope to learn from asking the questions?"
Can you ask personal questions?
You can also ask the person about themselves (not too personal!), such as age group, male or female, etc, so that you know the kind of people that you have been surveying.
Example: you want to clean up the local river. You feel that with some help and some money you could make it really beautiful again. What should you do?
You want to survey your local community to find out: • Are other people also worried about the river. • Are they willing to donate their time or money to help.
What does it mean to define your objectives?
what I want to achieve by the end of the survey.
