Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Chapter 7: Writing the Questionnaire


 

Use of Language


-          Eg, avoid technical terms

-          The interview as conversation

o   Audience design

§  Questionnaire not framed for any specific person

o   Grounding

o   Minority languages

 

Avoiding Ambiguity in the Question

 

Determining the Pre-Codes


-          Issues

o   Mutually exclusive

o   Exhaustive

o   Precise

o   Meaningful

-          Recording values

-          Constructing ranges

 

Using Prompts


-          Picture prompts

o   Brand awareness

o   Likelihood to purchase

o   Brand image

o   Advertising recognition

 

Order Bias and Prompts


-          Scalar responses

o   Primacy effect

o   Telephone interviewing – recency effect

-          Batteries of statements

o   Fatigue effect

o   Statement clarification

o   Response lists

§  Fixed list of options

§  Primacy & recency effects

§  Satisficing

·         Taking first acceptable answer rather than reviewing full list.

 

Question Order

 

-          Funnelling

o   Funneling sequences are used to take the respondent from general questions on a topic through to questions that are more specific without allowing the earlier questions to condition or bias the responses to the latter.

-          Question order bias

o   Priming effects

§  Act of asking a question can have effect on response

o   Consistency effect

§  Particular type of priming

§  Can occur because respondents are led along a particular route of responses to a conclusion to which they can only answer one way if they are to appear consistent

 

Standardizing Questions


-          To allow tracking over time

 

Tracking Studies

 

Omnibus Studies

 

 

 

 

 

 

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