Using Questions from Other Surveys
Using questions from other surveys has a number of
benefits:
- Questions from other surveys may have been tested
for reliability and validity
- They can provide a benchmark to compare your survey
results against
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They can save
you time and effort in designing a suitable,
correctly worded questionnaire
However, care should be
taken when using questions from other surveys, for the
following reasons:
- You should use a source of questions from an
organisation which has good experience in survey
methodology
- Questions may have been designed for use in a survey
which uses a different methodology than you are
using. For example, the
Health Survey of England uses a face-to-face
interview for data collection. Some of the
questions are therefore complex and may not be
suitable for a postal survey.
- Making minor
amendments to questions developed for other surveys
may affect their reliability and validity.
- When compiling
questions you need to ensure the question order us a
logical sequence and the questionnaire is
piloted.
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