{"id":2922,"date":"2012-08-06T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.survio.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:01:31","slug":"survey-tip-carefully-revise-the-number-of-questions-and-the-time-needed-to-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-en.survio.com\/tips-and-tricks\/survey-tip-carefully-revise-the-number-of-questions-and-the-time-needed-to-complete","title":{"rendered":"Survey tip: carefully revise the number of questions and the time needed to complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article you will quickly learn how to create a well ordered survey which can be filled out in a comfortable ammount of time for the respondent. It is important to realize that with <a title=\"Create Your Own Online Survey\" href=\"\/\/www.survio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internet survey<\/a> the respondent can leave at any moment during process of filling out. One of the most frequent reasons is inadequate care or thaught put into it.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What are the most important factors influencing completion time?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Content quantity (questions and answers)<\/li>\n \t<li>Content quality (questions and answers)<\/li>\n \t<li>Content type (questions and answers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Survey Content<\/h3>\n<p>The number of questions to use depends on the quantity of information we require.\u00a0The optimal number of questions for an <a href=\"\/\/www.survio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internet survey<\/a> is <strong>5 to 10<\/strong>. Too many answers for one question often leads to bad quality and mixed information.\u00a0The optimum number is <strong>2 to 5<\/strong> answers to one question.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do I reduce the number of questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>It is better not to offer potential answers of a similiar nature, you need strong contrast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Survey quality<\/h3>\n<p>Questions and the potential answers belonging to them have to be unequivocal. Avoid long and unclear texts that unnecesserily tak\u00e9 up the respondent\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to improve question quality?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>Express both the questions and answers as simply as possible.<\/li>\n \t<li>Don\u2018t use unessasery terms and abbreviations that might confuse the respondent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selected the best type of question<\/h3>\n<p>A bad choice of <a title=\"Survio - a list of all supported question types\" href=\"\/\/faq.survio.com\/?lang=en&amp;section=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">question type<\/a> can easily prolong the respondents completion time.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the situation where you are asking for level of education the respondent has reached.<\/p>\n<p>Example: <strong>Firstly, a multiple choice question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please select yor current level of education.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>primary<\/li>\n \t<li>GCSEs<\/li>\n \t<li>vocational<\/li>\n \t<li>A-level<\/li>\n \t<li>Bachelor\u2018s degree<\/li>\n \t<li>Master\u2019s degree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondly, an optional text field question. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is your current level of education? Type your answer here:<\/p>\n<p><input name=\"vzdelani\" size=\"20\" type=\"text\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first way is not only more comfortable, but also much faster. The second way takes aproximately 10 seconds, five times longer than the first. In cases where the respondent is useing a mobile device, it will take them conciderably longer than a simple selection.<\/p>\n\n<h3>In conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>There are a number of factors influencing the time spent on filling out a questionaire (e.g.Internet connection speed). We must bare in mind that you shouldn\u2019t include to many questions in your survey, the type of question has to be selected so it corresponds with the expected information we require and the questions have to be clear and not just easy to answer, But easy to answer quickly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">In this article you will quickly learn how to create a well ordered survey which can be filled out in a comfortable ammount of time for the respondent. 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