Questionnaires & Questionnaires Design

Areej Ameen Maryam Shamim Mahnoor Babar Madhia Sadique Nomaira Ahmed

QUESTIONNAIRES
Personally

Administered Questionnaires Mail Questionnaires Electronically Distributed

Guidelines For Questionnaire Design

Principles

of wording Principles of measurement General getup

Types & Forms of Questions

Open-ended

Vs. Close-ended Positively Vs. Negatively worded Double Barreled Questions Ambiguous Questions Recall-dependent Questions Leading Questions Loaded Questions

Should and shouldn't

Socially
Length

desirability- Right choice of words

of questions- Short questions of questions- Easy to difficult

Sequencing Personal

information- If necessary then ask

Information or income or other sensitive personal data

Demographic

information can be sought either at beginning or at the end of the questionnaire Information of a very private and personal nature such as income, state of health

Open ended question at the end

Questionnaire

include an open-ended question at the end Expression comment Concluding the questionnaire Questionnaire should be end on courteous note Check all the item have been completed

Pretesting of structured questions

Pretesting

involves the use of a small number of respondents to test the appropriateness of the questions and their comprehension