Participation level:

  • Low (Information only)

Innovation level:

  • Low (Traditional)

Facilitator skill level, and other support required:

  • Low (No special skills)

Can be used for:

  • Engage community
  • Discover community issues

Questionnaires and response sheets are a measure of community opinion and/or issues at a certain time or in a certain area.


Questionnaires and response sheets provide information on which to base decisions about planning and management of community and/or natural resources.


 


Questionnaires offer the following advantages:
  • Less personal than interviewing, their anonymity can encourage more honest answers.
  • Works well to reach respondents who are widely scattered, or live considerable distances away.
  • Provides information from those unlikely to attend meetings and workshops.
  • Permits expansion of the mail list.
  • Can be used for statistical validation.
  • Allows results to be extrapolated by subgroups.
  • Allows the respondent to fill out at a convenient time.
  • More economical and less labour intensive than interviews and telephone surveys as they provide larger samples for lower total costs.

  • Generally only useful for qualitative data.
  • Low response rates can bias the results. Can involve follow up telephone calls and letters to encourage returns.
  • Needs a return envelope/freepost address to encourage participation.
  • Depends on a high degree of literacy.
  • Wording of questions needs to be unambiguous to avoid bias, and should be pre-tested on a sample audience to ensure that you receive the information you desire.

 

Organizing Questionnaire

How many people to organize?

  • Medium (2-12 people)
  • Individual

Time required:

  • Short (< 6 weeks)

Cost:

  • Low (< AUD$1,000)

  • Draft questions. Keep as short as possible.
  • Trial questions with a small sample (pilot group) to determine whether they are unbiased, straightforward and not open to misinterpretation.
  • Indicate the purpose of the questionnaire at outset
  • Include qualitative data such as age, sex, address, education etc. to allow for further extrapolation of the results.
  • Include any new names/addresses in the mailing list.
  • Send out with printed information materials.
  • If the budget allows, provide free mail reply (stamped addressed envelope; freepost mailbox, etcetera) to improve responses.
  • Document responses as part of the public involvement process.

 

References

 

Description

Questionnaires are the basic research tool used to collect information, and are usually developed and tested to ensure that they are easily understood and will collect the information required. Questionnaires ensure that exactly the same questions are presented to each person surveyed, and this helps with the reliability of the results. Questionnaires can be delivered via face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, self-complete forms, mail outs or on-line. Questionnaires can be distributed by email as well as posted or faxed. Response sheets can be collected at a workshop, or can be picked up at a workshop and mailed back. These can also be mailed outin ways that reduce postage costs, when they are included in routine mail-outs such as the distribution of fact sheets or accounts.


This page originally copied with permission from the Citizens Science Toolbox


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