Resource CenterHow to Create and Administer Surveys and Questionnaires
Techniques for Writing Surveys —This site is geared toward high-school students, but it's still a useful primer.
Colorado State University's Writing Guide: Surveys — An excellent site full of information on sampling, various types of surveys, and an annotated bibliography about survey research.
StatPac Tutorial: "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Surveys"— Although this site's aim is to introduce the user to StatPac's services, it is free and extremely useful.
Creative Research System's Survey Design Tutorial — Another software producer generously offering a sample of their knowledge as a "public service." Again, this is useful information, and they offer a free tool for calculating sample size.
The Market Research Society's Code of Ethics and Guidelines for researchers. This site from the UK offers some interesting links for researchers working with people.Now that you've created a survey, how will you administer it? You can find a number of easy scripts on the Web, many PHP-based, that give you plenty of room for customization. Some of them will even run the statistics for you!
The Hindu's Review of Web-based Survey Tools — A good overview of available script and hosting options from the on-line version of India's national newspaper.
Builder.com's Survey Tool — This is an excellent survey-building tool (I can vouch for it personally); knowledge of MySQL is required to run it.
All the Scripts — A plethora of scripts in a variety of languages. New arrivals appear regularly.Thursday, November 9, 2006