Questionnaire
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A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case. The questionnaire was invented by Sir Francis Galton.
Questionnaires have advantages over some other types of surveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort from the questioner as verbal or telephone surveys, and often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data. However, such standardized answers may frustrate users. Questionnaires are also sharply limited by the fact that respondents must be able to read the questions and respond to them. Thus, for some demographic groups conducting a survey by questionnaire may not be practical.
As a type of survey, questionnaires also have many of the same problems relating to question construction and wording that exist in other types of opinion polls.
[edit] See also
- Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
- Course evaluation
- Questionnaire construction
- Structured interviewing
- Web experiment list
- Customer survey
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
[edit] External links
- The Question Bank
- Harmonised questions from the UK Office for National Statistics
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- UK Market Research Society[1]
- Hints for Designing Effective Questionnaires - from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation.
