Surveys are a popular tool for collecting feedback from donors and program participants. Inexpensive and easy to send, they’re a visible way to engage constituents and signal an openness to outside ...

Current thinking and writing on the subject of designing surveys to make the questions most conducive to accurate, useful answers and better quality data. To make accurate measurements in market ...

Data from mixed-mode questions are hard, if not impossible, to interpret accurately. The first part of this article will give an example of a mixed-mode question and an analysis of how to interpret ...

Singular-mode mail and telephone surveys are going the way of the landline—slowly but surely being phased out in favor of more technology-assisted communication. Once considered the gold standard for ...

The workshop is intended for government officials who would benefit from the knowledge of the concepts, principles, and methods used design to business surveys which are subsequently used to compile ...

Researchers sometimes ask, “What is the best way to learn my subjects’ characteristics?” Often, the answer is simply to “just ask them!” The survey is a popular research tool that comes with ...

In this chapter, the panel considers issues of design and development of key methodological aspects of the Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS), focusing on the sample frame for ARMS, the ...

Improvements in design tools, tech innovation, and new design methodologies have simplified design efforts over the past three to five years, according to a survey of global design engineers. The ...

This short course introduces statistical survey methods necessary to acquire information from people and analyze the collected information in an objective way which would minimizes bias and errors in ...