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Find the best survey software for you!
(Along with a checklist to compare platforms)
Take a peek at our powerful survey features to design surveys that scale discoveries.
Explore Voxco
Need to map Voxco’s features & offerings? We can help!
Find the best customer experience platform
Uncover customer pain points, analyze feedback and run successful CX programs with the best CX platform for your team.
We’ve been avid users of the Voxco platform now for over 20 years. It gives us the flexibility to routinely enhance our survey toolkit and provides our clients with a more robust dataset and story to tell their clients.
Steve Male
VP Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, The Logit Group
Explore Regional Offices
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Survey research is the most common and widely used tool for quantitative research. Surveys are used to gather data by asking relevant questions to the respondents who are thought to have the relevant information we are seeking to acquire. Generally, a formal list of questionnaires is prepared which is circulated to the respondents and they can self-report their thoughts. Researchers use a non-disguised approach so that the participants of the survey know exactly what they are answering. In general, respondents are asked questions regarding their demographic details, and the opinion that the researcher is interested in studying.
Surveys can be conducted through online polls, paper-pencil questionnaires, web-intercept surveys, etc. Surveys are conducted by small and big organizations because they intend to understand what are the opinions of their customers about their products and services. Surveys are important because they give organisations an opportunity to ask multiple survey questions, collect data from a large number of customers and analyse the numerical results generated from collected data.
In today’s day and age, research is extremely important and thus it is essential for us to understand the benefits of the same. It is crucial to understand how to study the target audience with the help of an accurate survey tool. The data for a survey can be collected with the help of standardized procedures which ensures that every respondent can answer the questions asked in a way that minimises bias. This is done in order to let any outside forces affect the results of the study.
Online surveys include a set of structured questions that respondents complete through the internet. This is generally done by filling a form. Online surveys are becoming increasingly popular because it is an apt way to reach out to the participants, it is less time consuming and is also cost effective as compared to traditional paper-and-pencil surveys. The data collected can also be stored in the database and be used for later evaluations by experts.
Sometimes to increase the response rates on surveys, businesses offer incentives to respondents for participating in online surveys. These incentives include gift cards, discount coupons, free airline miles, etc. Research studies that include rewards for participants are a win-win situation for both parties involved as companies get valuable data for their market research, while respondents also stand a chance to receive a reward for their time.
Researchers need to use the right questions as well as the right medium to administer their online surveys when they are conducting a survey research. Voxco helps researchers to create and administer different kinds of questionnaires, polls, and even quizzes. Some of these survey templates include:
We have highlighted the following recommendations to consider when you are designing a survey:
Sample is referred to as the audience that will fill your survey as respondents. Your sample should consist of respondents that have the required demographic characteristics that you are planning to study and those who can answer the survey questions relevantly in order to generate the most insight. The more representative you sample, the better the quality of your results.
The characteristics of a survey sample, are:
To know more about the sampling methods mentioned above in detail, click here.
The insight surveys generate are dependent upon the useful questions it asks in the questionnaire. We have highlighted some important characteristics of research questions:
Survey logic is one of the most essential characteristics of a survey. The reason researchers use logic is to ask respondent-relevant questions based on their current answers to a question. Survey skip logic allows you to create smart surveys that will expose respondents to newer questions depending on their answers to the screening questions. The characteristics for survey skip logic and branching include:
Survey-research analyses the in-depth responses collected by the individuals from the focus population. A survey study includes processes and instruments that focus on asking different kinds of questions to a predetermined set of samples, data collection methods, and ways to increase the response rates on surveys.
Research studies are of the following types:
A researcher can distribute surveys in different ways, the most commonly used methods include:
You can use one way of distribution of the survey or mix them the above methods depending on the objective of your research as well as the resources in use for the particular research. There are many factors that influence the mode of distribution of surveys including cost, study type, flexibility of the questions and question types, statistical analysis to be done on the data, the time available to collect the responses, as well as the willingness of the participants to be a part of the study.
You can also conduct telephone or email surveys and on the basis of that select some respondents for face to face interviews. Sometimes survey data is also obtained by asking a group of people to fill out the questionnaires on the basis of their school, or group of shoppers, etc.
In fact, you can classify surveys on the basis of the content and use open or closed questions to know more about the opinions, attitudes, beliefs, habits, or experiences of particular target groups and analyze their differences. You can create a concise questionnaire that is short and simple, or a more detailed survey that requires an hour or more of time from the respondent.
The methods that are employed to collect data from surveys have increasingly evolved with time. Researchers have adapted to conducting surveys online as opposed to paper-pencil surveys. Sometimes, researchers employ offline and online methods to collect accurate and valid data. The survey response rates vary according to the methods of data collection employed. They also vary with respect to time, interest, and incentives of the respondents.
There are several sources that researchers can collect survey data from:
The last step of a survey research is data analysis. Here, researchers use statistics to turn the numeric data collected into useful and meaningful information that can provide insights into decision making. Statistics is used to summaries data, describe the patterns observed in the collected data, relationships and connections between the several variables under study. Statistics can be descriptive or inferential. Descriptive statistics helps researchers to summaries the collected data whereas inferential statistics is used to identify whether the association or cause-effect relationship obtained between variables is statistically significant or relevant. The other methods of data analysis are:
In text analysis, researchers analyze the social life of the respondents in the study and aim to decode the actions and the words of the respondents. Hence, text analysis is distinct from other qualitative research methods as it focuses on the social life of the respondents. In the last decade or so, text analysis has become increasingly popular due to the analysis of what consumers share on social media platforms in the form of blogs, images, and other texts.
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