Are you stuck with finding the right types of questions to include in your questionnaire? Or do you want some inspiration to get you started? Well, you have come to the right place!
Often, a quick online search will result in sample questionnaires related to our topics to help get the creative juices flowing. If you are successful in finding questionnaires on your topics online, make sure to note at the bottom that you have adapted your questions from other sources. As an example, say you are preparing a survey about institutional ICC, maybe you could find a similar survey on intercultural competence and adapt existing questions for your own questionnaire.
If you haven’t already, the Survey module has information on question design. For example, you can explore how to develop high-quality questions. Another important thing to keep in mind is to create unbiased and ethical questions. Also key to consider is what types of demographic questions may fit best with your survey.
There are many types of questions that you could ask in your survey. Depending on the way your survey is structured, some questions may best be delivered through multiple choice (selecting one or multiple options) or fill in the blank. The types of questions include the following categories:
- Demographics (age, employment status/income, race, ethnicity, education, etc.)
- People’s knowledge and background on the subject
- Health-related questions
- Evaluating an experience or event
- How did your participants learn about the survey
Resources
Here are some additional resources to get you started:
- Creative Victoria, Survey questionnaire template and question bank, last updated: March 21, 2019.
- Gallup Employee Surveys
- National Institute of Health, Form: CDC COVID-19 Community Survey Question Bank (DRAFT), last updated: April 2020.
- Pew Research Center
- Social Science Research & Instructional Center, Sample GSS Survey Questions, last updated: November 9, 2004.
- Statistics How To, Guttman Scale (Cumulative Scale): Definition & Examples, last updated: September 13, 2016.
- Stefan Huber, The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS), December 2012.
- Voxco, Bogardus Social Distance Scale, 2021.
