1. Survey Design Steps in Conducting a survey

2.  There are two basic steps for conducting a survey  Design and Planning  Data Collection

3. (1) Decide on type of survey (e.g., mail, telephone interview, etc); Type of respondent, and population (2) Develop the survey instrument/ questionnaire - Write questions to measure variables - Decide on respondent categories - Organize question sequences - Design questionnaire layout

4. (3) Plan System for recoding answers (4) Pilot test the instrument and train interviewers if necessary (5) Draw the sample: - Define target population - Decide on type of sample - Develop sampling Frame - Decide on Sample size - Select Sample

5.  Locate and contact the respondents  Make introductory statements or provide instructions  Ask questions and recode answers  Thank respondent and continue to next respondent  End data collection and organize data