Questionnaires

Table of Contents

1. Questionnaires
2. Question 1: When to use a questionnaire
3. Question 2: Steps in designing a questionnaire
4. Question 3: Aims and use of existing questionnaires
5. Question 4: Designing the questionnaire
6. Question 5: Deciding the design
7. Question 6: The introduction to the questionnaire.
8. Question 7. Deciding the answers to questions
9. Question 8: Answers to questions
10. Question 9: Posing the question
11. Question 10: Improving response rates
12. Question 11: Face-to-face questionnaire - advantages
13. Question 12: Face-to-face questionnaire - disadvantages
14. Question 13: Telephone delivered questionnaires
15. Question 14: Self-completed/ postal questionnaires
16. Question 15: What happens after questionnaire design?
17. Question 16: Questions in the questionnaire
18. Question 17: Covering letter
19. Question 18: Recording the replies.
20. Question 19: Now what
21. Summary

Question 10: Improving response rates

My questionnaire is going to teenagers, mainly male who have had an injury. They are a group that is well known to have a poor response rate.

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What can I do? a) Pay them. Put in an incentive like if they send the questionnaire back we send them a voucher that can be exchanged in shops b) Recruit more people in order to get enough of our sample size c) Make the questionnaire very short and easy to complete d) Make the questionnaire a striking colour and attractive e) Phone them to complete the questionnaire, don't rely on the post f) Make the questionnaire completed over the internet a) Yes, incentives to young people can work well. Incentives don't work for all groups of people, but for teenagers it is a good waya) Incentives for teenagers do work well. They don't work for all groups of people (i.e. doctors need a very big incentive, high street vouchers might not get them completing an questionnaire) but they do work for teenagersb) Getting more people does not really make it representative. We will get more of a skewed sample (i.e. perhaps more where their mums filled in the questionnaire)b) Getting more does not give us a representative sample. We will have more of a skewed sample, perhaps more questionnaires that have been completed by mums and not the teenager themselvesc) Yes, making it quick and easy and simple will improve our response ratec) Making it quick and easy and simple will improve our response rated) It would have to be very different for this method to workd) It would have to be very different for this method to work e) This could help with some but, it might be hard to talk to them on the phone and might be hard to get them ine) This might work for some, but it might be hard to talk to some teenage boys on the phone and might be hard to get them inf) This might help quite a lot as it is more fun than completing a paper questionnairef) This might help quite a bit as it is more fun than completing a paper questionnaire.