Research Methods: Standardized

Questionnaire

• Standardized questionnaires are used to discover regularities among groups of people by comparing answers to the same set of questions asked of a large number of people.

• Questionnaires can be delivered by mail, email, online or administered over the phone or in person by interviewers trained to ask the questions in the same way.

• Questionnaires provide a useful data when investigators begin with a very well defined problem, knowing what major concepts and dimensions they want to deal with.

• Analysis of questionnaire responses can provide precise numbers to measure variables, e.g. degrees, percentages, .etc.