In 1997 questionnaire research was viewed by many scientists (including myself) as soft science and an “easy way to a quick publication”. The principles underlying high quality questionnaire research ...

Anyone who has taken a survey has likely been given the option to “check all that apply” when answering a question. The instruction is widely used in data collection because of its ease and efficiency ...

Survey research is an important form of scientific inquiry1 that merits rigorous design and analysis.2 The aim of a survey is to gather reliable and unbiased data from a representative sample of ...

At Pew Research Center, we regularly field questions from readers about the methodology behind our polls, including the occasional inquiry from someone who wants to be polled but hasn’t had the ...

The National Biometry Audit II utilised a telephone-administered questionnaire, recruiting 94 biometrists from 178 potential interviewees (53%); 1 there would be no reason to assume that the 47% who ...

In 2013, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Injury Questionnaire (OSTRC-O) was developed to record the magnitude, symptoms and consequences of overuse injuries in sport. Shortly afterwards ...