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Have a question or topic you : want to find an answer to. Create a team to…
Have a question or topic you : want to find an answer to. Create a team to help you out with the study too as well as funding for your study.
Create a well thought out, specific question you want your study to answer.
Decide whether you will be doing a qualitative or quantitative study. Either way you need to decide who your samples will be and where you will get them. Figure out if you will be able to have monetary incentive as well as transportation or other accommodations to encourage a large sample size. It's a good idea to get help from community leaders to encourage participation.
If you are going to do a quantitative study, you need to come up with the study questions. Will you be doing it interview style or a questionnaire? Use the help of your team to create clear, well thought out questions making sure to avoid double barreled questions and make sure your answers are very inclusive. Make your questions short and relevant. Also, make sure your questions are not biased.
Mail surveys
These types of surveys require participants to perform their own questionnaires. Make it as easy as possible to do in order to get people to actually do them and make it easy for them to send them back. You have to send a lot more out and will not get as many back because just people will throw them away. Include a cover letter so the recipient will know why you're sending them the survey and why it's important, as well as how long it will take to do. Also explain their privacy right and what will be done with their answers.
Whatever way you decide to do your survey you will then have to code it. This is where you will assign each answer a code to put into the computer. From what I learned there's a lot of easy ways to do this that when you put the information in, it will show the data you found in many ways. This is where you will then analyze the information you found and see if your question was answered. Share your findings with people in the community to see if your findings are accurate or if something could have been done differently. Maybe bring in an expert to make sure there were no biases in your study to make sure everything was done correctly.
Write down your study. Make sure to include what your question was and why that was your questions. Include information on your participants. The method that was used, all the data that you found and the results of your study. Make sure that if necessary, others could replicate your study.
Online surveys
You can send it to a whole lot more people this way and you can do it for less cost. In your initial email message be clear, short, and use simple words. You don't want to scare participants away with something too complicated. Make sure to set a time limit and deadline. Send follow up emails to remind them to participate. Careful with spams though.
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interview surveys
In this survey you can either do it on the phone or face to face. You will ask them the questions and will be putting down the answers yourself. Make sure you dress appropriately and remain neutral and pleasant while doing the interview so you do not affect the results of the survey. Also, make sure to record the answers exactly.
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telephone surveys
These surveys are easier to do and cheaper too. However there's a chance that people may hang up on you and not finish. It's a good way to do a survey though because you don't need people to travel anywhere.
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If you are going to be doing a qualitative study, you need to come up with your questions with the help of your team. The questionnaire should have open-ended questions. It should also be easy to follow, culturally sensitive, inclusive, relevant, and make sure the questions are not biased.
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