Survey and Questionnaire Design

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Apr, 2009
Survey & Questionnaire Design
Free online tutorial made available by StatPac Inc.: it has been taken from a chapter in the book 'Survival Statistics' by Prof. David Walonick from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The whole book can be purchased from the site. The tutorial, which aims to teach users how to conduct a survey and design a questionnaire, is over 20 pages long can be downloaded in Word or PDF format, or read online. Topics covered include: research methods; cost considerations; order of questions; incentives; flow charts; response rate and following up of non-respondents; anonymity and confidentiality; sampling methods; time considerations; non-response bias and the meaning of 'significance'. The tutorial can also be emailed to the user. The focus is on questions that will collect quantitative data rather than qualitative. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.statpac.com/surveys/