1st Edition

A Practical Guide to Survey Questionnaire Design and Evaluation

By Emilia Peytcheva, Ting Yan Copyright 2025
168 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A Practical Guide to Survey Questionnaire Design and Evaluation summarizes principles, guidelines, and best practices for developing and testing survey questionnaires driven and supported by theoretical and empirical research. It provides a broad overview of literature on questionnaire design, drawing on both theoretical and empirical research. This book consists of three parts. The first... Read more

Part I: Survey Response Model and Questionnaire Design  1. Introduction  2. Survey Response Model  3. Writing Behavioral Questions  4. Writing Attitudinal Questions  5. Writing Demographic and Knowledge Questions;  Part II: Specific Considerations  6. Writing Sensitive Questions and Questions for Sensitive Populations  7. Design of Paper Surveys  8. Design of Web and Mobile Web Surveys  9. Designing Multimode Surveys  10. Design of Multiregion, Multiculture, and Multilanguage Surveys;  Part III: Questionnaire Evaluation and Testing  11. Lab-based Methods  12. Expert Methods  13. Field-based Methods  14. Usability Testing  15. Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GAI) for Questionnaire Design and Evaluation

Biography

Emilia Peytcheva is a senior survey methodologist at RTI International and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in survey methodology from the University of Michigan and has 25 years of experience designing and implementing surveys in different modes.

Ting Yan is a Vice President at NORC at the University of Chicago, USA, and an adjunct research associate professor at the University of Maryland and University of Michigan, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Survey Methodology from the University of Maryland and has more than 25 years of experience in questionnaire design and evaluation. She has published extensively on survey methodology.