Questionnaire Research Flow Chart

Adapted from pg. 3 of David S. Walonick, A Selection from Survival Statistics [Walonick2010], formerly available from https://www.statpac.com/surveys/surveys.pdf

[Walonick2010] David S. Walonick, ‘A Selection from Survival Statistics’, in Survival statistics, Bloomington, MN, USA: StatPac, Inc., 2010. ISBN 0-918733-11-1. formerly available from https://www.statpac.com/surveys/surveys.pdf

[Walonick2003] David S Walonick, Survival statistics. Minneapolis, Minn.: StatPac, 2003, ISBN: 978-0-918733-11-5. http://www.statpac.com/surveys/ Links to an external site.

Transcript

So, if we think about designing a questionnaire, we start in the upper left-hand corner here, and we need to design our methodology. So explicitly, we need to decide what's going to be our design methodology. Next, we have to decide is it feasible? Is it feasible to apply that design methodology? If so, then we're going to develop our instruments. In this case, the questionnaire, and now we're going to select our sample population. We're going to conduct a pilot trial. We will revise the survey. And now that we have a good survey instrument, we're going to now actually go and conduct our research. A big mistake to be made here, is if we don't pilot it - because if we don't pilot it - we don't know: Is it actually a good questionnaire or not? And we don't want to spend lots of time and bother lots of people whenever actually the questionnaire isn't very good. So remember: Do your pilot studies! When you conduct the research, then, of course, you have to analyze the data, and many people forget that it's going to take a lot of time to analyze the data. Include that in your planning. And then, of course, finally we need need to prepare the report so that now we can inform others of what it is that we have learned as a result of using this survey of all of these people - who put time and effort into answering it - and so that we can maximize the value of that effort.