12 Questionnaire Design Tips for Successful Surveys
Summary
To ensure your research project is a success and help you collect high quality, meaningful data, consider these best practice tips before creating a questionnaire. Closed ended questions with answer choices are often easier for respondents to complete and give you quantitative data to analyse. Use a variety of question styles and make them as engaging as possible with images, drag and drop, sliders or emojis to increase response rates. By ensuring your online questionnaires are compliant with version 2.1 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and in the US with Section 508 requirements, you can increase response rates and collect reduced bias quality data. If there’s a chance that your survey will involve collecting and storing data from European citizens, then you need to make sure that it’s GDPR compliant.