Your survey research project may require a combination of various data collection methods. A mixed methodology approach to data collection can assist in maximizing your survey response rate or to communicate with hard-to-reach respondents. 

There are many methods of data collection. Depending on your research requirements, you can provide your respondents with options and accessibility through a combination of the following modes of survey research: 

• Online surveys
• Paper surveys
• Scannable paper surveys (a great alternative to labor-intensive data entry)
• Telephone surveys
• Mobile surveys
• Kiosk surveys
• Tablet surveys (handheld surveys)
• Interviewer surveys (face-to-face, multi-mode options) 

Advanced survey software providers can support multi-mode surveys, facilitating the collection of survey response data from multiple data collection sources, and merge survey data into a single dataset ready for complete analysis.

View our worksheet: Create multiple editions of your questionnaire

In this worksheet, you will learn how to create an online survey from an existing paper survey by creating a new edition. You can use the same process to make any number of editions to a single survey. This allows you to publish the same survey to paper, mobile, kiosk, or online, and analyze all the survey data in a single data file. 

Snap Survey’s survey software provides a cost effective way to manage multi-mode surveys. Surveys for all modes of data collection are easy to set-up through our design interface and results from all data collection methods can be seamlessly combined and analyzed all in one complete survey software solution.