Self-completed questionnaires
3 important questions on Self-completed questionnaires
What are characteristics of a self-completed questionnaires?
- Self-adminstered questinnaire
- no interviewer present
- respondents writes answers on form
- returned to researcher
- can be distributed in person or by e-mail
- no interviewer present
- respondents writes answers on form
- returned to researcher
- can be distributed in person or by e-mail
What is the self-completed questionnaires in comparison to interviews, self-completion questionnaires tend to:
- have fewer open questions, since closed ones tend to be easier to answers
- have easy-to-follow designs to minimize he risk that the respondent will fail to follow filter questions or will inadvertently omit a question
- be shorter, to reduce risk of 'respondents fatigue', since it is much easier for a respondent who becomes tired of answering questions in a long questionnaire to consign it to a waste paper bin than it is for a subject being interviewed to terminate the interview
- have easy-to-follow designs to minimize he risk that the respondent will fail to follow filter questions or will inadvertently omit a question
- be shorter, to reduce risk of 'respondents fatigue', since it is much easier for a respondent who becomes tired of answering questions in a long questionnaire to consign it to a waste paper bin than it is for a subject being interviewed to terminate the interview
What are advantages and disadvantages?
+ cheaper and quicker to adminster
+ absence of interviewer effect
+ no interviewer variability
+ convenient for respondents
- cannot be prompted or probed
- ask salient questions
- lower response rate
- excludes people with limited literacy skills
+ absence of interviewer effect
+ no interviewer variability
+ convenient for respondents
- cannot be prompted or probed
- ask salient questions
- lower response rate
- excludes people with limited literacy skills
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