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Sponsored White Paper: 11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Survey Response Rates: You can learn a lot from your customers and employees - if you can get them to fill out your survey. Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to not only gather information, but also identify and diagnose problems as well as uncover any new and emerging opportunities. However, one of the biggest challenges that many companies face in conducting surveys is getting enough people to take their survey (i.e. getting a high enough response rate) to ensure that their survey results are accurate. While there is no single, silver bullet for improving response rates, there are some easy steps that companies can take that, when combined, will help them improve their survey response rates. This white paper from Allegiance discusses what those steps are.
Sponsored White Paper: The Devil Is in the Data: This research-on-research report explains how DMS Research profiled and examined panelists and survey respondents in detail based on their survey-taking behavior to help determine how questionnaires can be designed to gather the most accurate information from different types of respondents.
A report on the 2009 Globalpark Market Research Software Survey: This time around, results show that larger research companies are leading the charge when it comes to adopting mobile research techniques and, in spite of all the industry buzz, online communities have not yet taken off.
Follow these five tips when surveying Web site visitors: The author provides five tips intended to help researchers gain more insightful information using site intercept surveying without damaging users' experience on the site.
How clear research objectives can lead a project to success: Defining research objectives at the beginning of a project can serve as a guiding light throughout the research process and help ensure that client needs are satisfied by asking the right questions to the right people the right way.

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Measuring consumer attitudes: what is your scale really telling you?: One of the fundamental purposes of market research is to understand a targeted audience. This article discusses how several alternative attitudinal scales were tested on more than 1,000 respondents, measuring the same attribute yet providing radically different empirical results.
Data processing made easy: This article offers advice on how to prevent common data processing problems by taking preventative measures during the survey design process. The examples presented address telephone surveys, but the same principles apply to surveys conducted in malls, through the mail or any other data collection technique.
Field testing the National Health Interview Survey evaluation questionnaire: This article describes a three-phase testing process of a revised questionnaire. The researchers used a combination of qualitative observations of interviewers as well as quantitative analysis comparing the revised questionnaire with the original.
Capture the power of the purse: Focuses on designing the research process to enhance your efforts to market to women.
Surveyed mechanics say modern car quality down: It might seem that automobile technology and quality are improving, but according to many mechanics, U.S. car quality is lower today than 10 years ago. The survey, conducted by mailed questionnaires, has identified a lack of support, few improvements and warranty ignorance as some of the problems facing U.S. cars today.

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Mail surveys: A questionnaire sent and returned by regular mail to designated respondents.

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