{"id":878,"date":"2011-09-21T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2011-09-13T21:31:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T21:31:24","slug":"six-rules-for-writing-effective-survey-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/six-rules-for-writing-effective-survey-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Rules for Writing Effective Survey Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Always link your question to research aims and objectives\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure the question provides the information needed to fulfill the research objectives\u00a0<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Keep your questions SHORT AND SIMPLE so the respondents have the best chance to understand them.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The question should only ask one question.<\/li>\n<li>The question must be worded appropriately for the target population.<\/li>\n<li>The question must be clear, precise, and unambiguous.<\/li>\n<li>Make the question simple to understand.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid unnecessary adjectives and adverbs.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid negatives and double negatives.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Avoid Emotional Responses<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t use emotionally loaded words.<\/li>\n<li>Use wording that minimizes the risk of socially acceptable responses<\/li>\n<li>The question wording should not lead the respondent to answer in a particular way.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Put the Question in Context<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wording of the question should not make unwarranted assumptions.<\/li>\n<li>The wording should follow a natural order from the previous question.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Closed Question Must Include The Appropriate Answer Set<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All likely answers should be included in the answer set.<\/li>\n<li>Answers are mutually exclusive (no overlap).<\/li>\n<li>Answers are exhaustive (no gaps).<\/li>\n<li>The answer set includes a \u201cDon\u2019t know\u201d or \u201cNo opinion\u201d option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Consider The Response When Developing the Question<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is any recall required within a respondents memory capabilities?<\/li>\n<li>Is the respondent likely to have an answer readily available?<\/li>\n<li>Will the respondent feel uncomfortable answering this question?<\/li>\n<li>Are some of the answers more socially acceptable than other answers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Always link your question to research aims and objectives\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure the question provides the information needed to fulfill the research objectives\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[258,260,253,37,159,121,259,261],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-survey-design","tag-effective-survey-questions","tag-research-objectives","tag-respondents","tag-survey","tag-survey-questions","tag-surveys","tag-writing-effective-survey-questions","tag-writing-surveys"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapsurveys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}