The questions are the primary tools in collecting necessary information from the respondents of a survey. By making the right choices on the type of survey questions, you will be able to extract only data that are related to the purpose or goal of the survey.
Before constructing questions, you must be knowledgeable about each type of question used in survey research. These basically include:
Closed-ended questions limit the answers of the respondents to response options provided on the questionnaire.
Some examples of close ended questions are:
In open-ended questions, there are no predefined options or categories included. The participants should supply their own answers.
Some examples of open-ended questions include:
Matrix questions are also closed-ended questions but are arranged one under the other, such that the questions form a matrix or a table with identical response options placed on top. For example:
Please rate the following characteristics of the product based on your satisfaction ( use a check mark):
Strongly Satisfied | Satisfied | Neutral | Unsatisfied | Strongly Unsatisfied | |
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Overall Appearance |
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Questions that need to be answered only when the respondent provides a particular response to a question prior to them are called contingency questions. Asking these questions effectively avoids asking people questions that are not applicable to them. For example:
Have you ever smoked a cigarette?
___Yes ___ No
If YES, how many times have you smoked cigarette?
__ Once
__2-5 times
__ 6-10 times
__more than 10 times
The second question above is what we refer to as a contingency question following up a closed-ended question.
Oskar Blakstad (Apr 8, 2012). Types of Survey Questions. Hentet Sep 28, 2023 fra Assistert Selvhjelp - Få bedre psykisk helse via internett: https://staging.explorable.com/node/1078