
Questionnaire Design
How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research
Kogan Page Ltd (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 3. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-3986-0412-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Will your questionnaire work as well as it needs to by today's standards? Use this new edition of the bestselling guide to make sure it does.
Good data is central to information-based decision making. Increasing access to online survey software is allowing more organizations to benefit from contact with their customers, employees and the public. However, the challenges facing the questionnaire writer remain and the greater volume of surveys and demands on potential respondents' time is making the task even harder. Your questionnaire needs to work better than ever to keep their attention. Questionnaire Design provides comprehensive and practical guidelines to plan, structure and compose questionnaires across all industries and purposes, ensuring valuable data insights are captured with accuracy and efficiency.
You can't write a good questionnaire unless you know exactly what you are trying to achieve. This updated fifth edition recognizes this fundamental challenge, with advice for gaining the clarity needed to plan and focus your questionnaire. It continues to provide guidance for those using interviewer administered surveys, but now reflects the primacy of online and the challenges that brings. With pressure on everyone's time, this revised edition makes it even easier to navigate to the key points with new bullet-pointed takeaways at the end of each chapter.
Reviews / Votes
"The difference between useful and useless data can often be traced back to the questionnaire. This book is a great resource, guiding you through the myriad of decisions that face the question writer."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
559 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3986-0412-4 (9781398604124)
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Stephanie Marsh | Kate Bolton
Questionnaire Design
How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research
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6th Edition
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Kate Bolton | Ian Brace
Questionnaire Design
How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research
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05/2022
5th Edition
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Kate Bolton | Ian Brace
Questionnaire Design
How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research
Book
05/2022
5th Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
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Ian Brace
Questionnaire Design
How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research
Book
04/2018
4th Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
€60.84
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Author
Kate Bolton, based in Surrey, UK, is a certified member of the MRS and has been its key industry trainer for questionnaire design for over 20 years as well as being an examiner for the MRS Advanced Certificate. She previously led the Foundations Research Skills Programmes at Kantar.
Ian Brace is director of research methods at TNS UK. He has been a market researcher for over 30 years, during which time he worked for MAS Survey Research, NOP, Esso Petroleum, BJM Research and NFO WorldGroup.
Ian Brace is a visiting fellow in market research at Bristol Business School, and currently a member of the council of the Market Research Society and deputy chair of the Market Research Standards Board. He is the author of Questionnaire Design, and co-author of An Introduction to Market & Social Research, also published by Kogan Page.
ISNI: 0000 0001 2278 1539
ISNI: 0000 0001 2278 1539
Content
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- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Chapter - 01: Defining achievable questionnaire objectives;
- Chapter - 02: Influence of data collection approach on question design;
- Chapter - 03: Planning a questionnaire;
- Chapter - 04: An overview of question types;
- Chapter - 05: Identifying types of data created by questions;
- Chapter - 06: Creating appropriate rating scales;
- Chapter - 07: Asking about behaviour;
- Chapter - 08: Measuring satisfaction, image and attitudes;
- Chapter - 09: Writing effective questions;
- Chapter - 10: Creating a questionnaire for an online survey;
- Chapter - 11: Engaging respondents in online surveys;
- Chapter - 12: Choosing online survey software;
- Chapter - 13: Considerations for interviewer-administered and paper self-completion surveys;
- Chapter - 14: Test piloting your questionnaire;
- Chapter - 15: Ethical issues in questionnaire design;
- Chapter - 16: Understanding social desirability bias;
- Chapter - 17: Designing questionnaires for multi-country surveys