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Survey Research
Survey research is the study of attitudes, beliefs, and behavior of people and their settings through questionnaires administered by mail, handouts, personal and, telephone interviews, and the Internet.
Surveys typically range from one question spot polls to large-scale studies and sometimes employ panels and time samples. Today, the Internet enables surveys to be conducted completely online. Surveys are frequently used in national and local studies of political and economic attitudes and reported behavior. Surveys are used to identify important variables, to increase understanding, and sometimes to promote a change through education. Unlike the experiment, there is no conscious attempt to intervene to determine causality.
Classical experiments have been imbedded in surveys to study measurement problems associated with the wording and format of questions. This is an example of a "Combined Research Method." For more on combined methods, click here.
A dropdown menu for selection of a research methods appears on the Research Methods Page of the Composer. It also appears on the Search Protocols Page and in the popup Protocol Description Window on the Edit Protocol Page.
If your study fall in the category of Survey Research, click on the dropdown list of research methods and click on "Survey Research."