Perhaps the most important part of the survey process is the creation of questions that accurately measure the opinions, experiences and behaviors of the public. Accurate random sampling will be ...

Poorly designed questions and scaling problems can derail your research efforts faster than you can say "the cat in the hat"! To help you avoid a few of the more common and onerous problems, we will ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Pew Research Center conducts surveys all around the world on a variety of topics ...

Writing an effective questionnaire is not a task for novices. At the very least, it requires an understanding of four basic issues: Considering the differences between a questionnaire that respondents ...