Survey Design Methodology
About the course
This course will cover the basic elements of designing and evaluating questionnaires. We will review the process of responding to questions, challenges and options for asking questions about behavioural frequencies, practical techniques for evaluating questions, mode specific questionnaire characteristics, and review methods of standardized and conversational interviewing.
Course Content
| Units | Topics |
| Day 1 | Introduction and Overview of Standardized Interviewing: Introduction; Different types of questions, Measurement error in questions: Bias and variance; Standardized and conversational interviewing; from specifying a concept to asking questions |
| Day 2 | Response Process: Comprehension; Retrieval; Judgment; Response |
| Day 3 | Asking Factual Questions: Facts and quasi facts; Memory and recall; Asking sensitive questions; Mode, privacy and confidentiality |
| Day 4 | Measuring Attitudes: Context effects in attitude questions; Use of different scales; Offering don’t know options; Response order effects |
| Day 5 | Testing Questionnaires: Expert reviews and focus groups; Cognitive interviews; Behavior coding; Quantitative techniques |
Feedbacks
- Good work and interest by the all the three scholars. Who have worked for the trainings & 100% justice to the work they are provided. Please conduct regular workshops related to Ph.D research and for publications. ~ C. Kanimozhi, Assistant Professor [Horticulture]
- Learnt the Survey Methodology clearly. Explanation given by instructors was crystal clear. The practical session of Kobo tool was really engaging. ~ Damini. M, Lecturer-Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics
- Would like to join more workshops on basic statistics using SPSS. Also, would like to learn to understand how to analyse statistically qualitative reports from Interviews. ~ J. Jesly Anto, Researcher
- It was a really good learning about survey. The tutors were all very patient and sincere, making us easy to learn and ask doubts. ~ Aruna. V, Assistant Professor
- In this workshop there told more examples that helps to understand easily. ~ Vimal N, Student B.Com (AF)
- Make it more structured. Create a glossary of technical words with their meaning. ~ Johnknox. T, Research Scholar (English & Foreign Language)
- Please provide participants with required articles and reference materials for future reference. ~ Tejas Sunil Galande, Student (Physiotherapy)
- The course was very good & informative. As I am yet to pursue my Ph.D, this course was very useful. ~ Geetha. K, Lecturer (Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics)
- I suggested that more of this training should be conducted every month. ~ Ibrahim Jelil Kanu, Student (School of Public Health)
- Can increase the session days. So that we can have a clear idea. ~ Saranya. J, Research Scholar (MBA)
Survey Design Methodology
Survey Design Methodology
