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- - - - 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.
      - 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.
      - 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.
    - - informal conversational interview
        
        This type of interview is very unstructured, and most likely happens in conversation. In this one, you really need to listen and pay attention. Make sure to record everything well. You need to be very flexible with the answers you're going to be receiving so let the conversation lead you to the next questions. You need to remain very neutral when you probe the conversation though.
        
        In qualitative surveys the hardest part is coding. You need to listen to all the interviews and decide how you are going to code them. You may need to create new criteria but you should include all answers in your data because they are important. The thing about qualitative surveys is that they may show you what your next step should be or what interventions should be considered next. Make sure to share your findings with leaders in the community or experts and get their opinion on your findings. Use this information to figure out what you will do next.
      - general interval guide approach
        
        You can use an interview guide to come up with out outline for your questions. This interview can be semi structured or super structured. In the semi structured one you can have a list of questions but you can let the conversation take its own paths too. Your questions are more of a guide for where you want the interview to go. A very structured interview will have strict questions, so you can only ask those questions and exactly the way they are written. This way reduces biases and makes it easier when comparing the data to the others answers.
      - standardized open ended interview
        
        In this interview you will have very detailed structured open ended questions. This way you will keep probing to a minimum. You have to ask the question exactly as it it written.