{"id":544,"date":"2019-07-04T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2019-07-04T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T04:16:05","slug":"surveys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-3-collecting-data\/surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Why Use Surveys?<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-545 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2019\/07\/pie-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"185\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2019\/07\/pie-chart.jpg 371w, https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2019\/07\/pie-chart-300x206.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 269px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 269\/185;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;9-1&#8221; by phy2525254 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Use surveys if you want to make generalizable claims about a larger number of people.<\/p>\n<p>Use surveys if you think you can get a large and representative population.<\/p>\n<p>Use surveys if you want to confirm or find frequencies for phenomena you&#8217;ve learned about using methods that produce more detailed result.<\/p>\n<h5>Benefits:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Surveys potentially allow research to reach a large number of people.<\/li>\n<li>Surveys are flexible. Data collection can occur independent of researcher availability.<\/li>\n<li>Surveys can accommodate both qualitative (open ended) and quantitative (multiple choice, t\/f, scale) questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tips from the Professor:<\/strong> Surveys are great used in combination with a richer method of data collection such as interviews or focus groups! They help you to confirm findings across a broader population and potentially triangulate data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>More on Surveys:<\/h5>\n<p>Data gathered from a survey can be qualitative, quantitative, or both.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open ended questions produce qualitative data, this is generally more time consuming to analyze, but produces more detailed results.\n<ul>\n<li>Data will tend to be in text form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scale-based (likert scale) true\/false, or rating questions produced quantitative data. These can be analyzed using basic or inferential statistics.\n<ul>\n<li>Data will be numeric or yes\/no, t\/f.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In both cases, the way you structure your questions matters. Garbage in = garbage out, so crafting questions well is key, and test them if possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/researchmethods\/chapter\/overview-of-survey-research\/\">overview of survey research chapter [link]<\/a> from the Research Methods in Psychology Open Textbook (care of BC Campus).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-3-collecting-data\/surveys\/survey-question-design\/\">The next page will discuss survey question design<\/a>\u00a0[link]. This is crucial in order to get useful data from your survey.<\/p>\n<h6>&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-3-collecting-data\/surveys\/survey-question-design\/\">Next: Survey Question Design<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-3-collecting-data\/\">&lt;&lt;Back to Collecting Data<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Use Surveys? Use surveys if you want to make generalizable claims about a larger number of people. Use surveys if you think you can get a large and representative population. Use surveys if you want to confirm or find frequencies for phenomena you&#8217;ve learned about using methods that produce more detailed result. 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