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Questionnaires play an important role in research. They let us collect data which can reveal hidden information about people. However, they are not without limitations.

Questions can be self-administered, with participants answering all questions themselves, or researcher-administered, where the research team interviews a sample of respondents by phone, in-person, or online. Self-administered questionnaires tend to have lower response rates than researcher-administered questionnaires, due in part to the impersonal nature of mailed paper surveys and automated telephone menu systems.

Web-based questionnaires have a variety of advantages, like the ability to reach a wider audience than traditional telephone or mail-based surveys and the ability to include a global audience. But they can also pose some issues, such as the difficulty of reaching a representative sample. They are also affected by issues such as screen size as well as operating system, hardware platform and browser settings that could influence responses.

When creating a questionnaire it is crucial to consider the research’s goals and objectives. When creating questions, it’s crucial to know the target audience. For instance you must know if they can understand and answer the language or do they have the time to finish a lengthy questionnaire.

It’s also essential to test the new questionnaires ahead of time with qualitative methods such as focus groups, cognitive interviews, or pretesting (often by using an opt-in form of survey) to ensure that they’re working in the way they were intended to. Questions are susceptible to «question-order effects», where answers to questions from earlier ones can influence the answers to later ones.

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