Types of Surveys, Types of Survey Questions, Displaying Data

Personal Approach

Face to Face Structured Interview and Telephone Survey are what type of approach?

Face to Face Structured Interview

Interview is set to personally and the people involved face each other in order to gather the necessary information. Questions on the surveys are asked directly to the respondent by the researchers.

Telephone Survey

Survey is done using telephone or cellular phone.

Self Administered Approach

Paper and Pen Survey, Online Survey, and Mail Survey are what type of approach?

Paper and Pen Survey

Is a traditional method wherein the respondents who are usually not computer literate must be present in the administration of the survey.

Online Survey

This is useful technique that will cater to a big sample size coming from different location.

Mail Survey

questionnaires are mailed to Individuals who are given enough time to read and ponder on the information asked.

Open-ended questions

do not have predetermined options or answers “how” ,”why”.

Dichotomous Questions

two possible answers, and used when researchers wants to clearly distinguish the respondents opinion, preferences, or experience or behavior.

Multiple-response questions

necessitate the respondents to provide more than one answers.

Matrix Questions

are instances where a number of questions you intend to ask have the same set of possible answers, Thus, it is possible to construct a matrix of Items and answers for the sake of streamlining the survey.

Contingency Questions

are Intended for certain respondents only depending on the provided answers

Likert Scale

assess the subjects agreement/disagreement or approval/disapproval on a five point scale.

Pictogram

method uses pictures to represent frequency.

Bar Graph

most common way of displaying data quick and easy to draw, and straightforward to understand.

Also called Frequency Diagram

Pie Chart

each frequency is represented by a fraction of circle.

Tables

Provide exact values and Illustrate results efficiently as they enable the researchers present a large amount of space.

Title Number and Title

are places above the table, usually written right after the table number.

Caption Subhead

this refers to columns and rows.

Body

Contains all the data under a subhead.

Source

Indicates if the data is a secondary and should be acknowledge

Questionnaires

structured series of questions designed to collect primary data from respondents.