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How to Design a Questionnaire

Category: Design

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Why: Asking a list of questions is a common way to gather customer’s thoughts.

Step 1. Know a Scale of Measurement

In order of less info to more information.

  1. Nominal: no orders, labels of category.
  2. Ordinal: orders of rank, with no group relativity.
  3. Interval: orders, with group relativity/spacing.
  4. Ratio: Natural origin/true zero with group relativity.

Step 2. What to Keep in Mind

  • State clearly the sought-after information!
  • Decide type of questionnaire
  • Decide content of individual questions
  • Decide a form of response with a scale of measurement
  • Decide a sequence: broad to narrow, easy to hard questions
  • Test a questionnaire
  • Revise a questionnaire

Conclusion

Tips to make a perfect questionnaire to learn more about your customers. To ensure that you collect quality data, we must understand how to form choices with a measurement scale in our minds. Also, the sequence should invite and provide a responder with a clear context for answers to be useful.