Survey Tools and Information

This page has links that can assist you in surveying your chapter or SIG membership. 
See the Cost Per Return section to see what you're paying for. 
Survey Services and Products 

Create Your Own in FrontPage - Tutorial 
Adequate Survey Forge - Low rates 
Advanced Survey  
AppForce 
Elliance 
exTropia - Lots of Web tools
EZQuestionnaire - Free or premium accounts 
Form Artist 
CoolSurveys - Free 
Co-Operitiv 
CreateSurvey - Free and premium accounts 
Creative Research Systems - Free 
Custom Web Surveys 
Insightful Surveys 
OpinionPower 
QuestionPro 
StatPac 
Super Survey - Free and premium accounts
Survey Builder - Free 
Survey Gold 
Survey Logix  
Survey Monkey  
Survey Pro 
SurveySolutions - Initial packages then annual fees 
S-Wave - Free for non-commercial 
Rayosoft 
Resources4Evaluators - Major list of links; view prices 
Ultimate Survey 
Votations - Free and premium accounts 
WebAnalysis - Put survey on your site
WWW Survey Assistant - Free 
Zoomerang 
Zoomerang vs. Survey Monkey  

ASC Software Register - Large comparative list  

How To Survey

STC Usability SIG - Article links

Avoid Questionnaire Bloopers - STC Usab. SIG 
Survey Design - Creative Research Systems 
Survey Tips - Admiralty 
Survey Tips - Custom Web Surveys 
Survey Tips - EZQuestionnaire  
Survey Tips - Insightful Surveys 
Survey Tips - Perseus  
Survey Tips - SurveyExperts 
Survey Tips - Survey Magic; Optimize responses  
Top 10 Survey Tips - System Thinking 
Tutorial on how to do a survey - StatPac 
How to Write a Good Survey  
Web Survey Considerations - STC Usab. SIG 

Sample Size, Analyzing Results  

STC Usability SIG - Article links

Accuracy Discussion and Costs - Quirks 
Analyzing Results - PF Inc 
Analyzing Results - Inc.com 
HyperStat Online Textbook  
How Many Subjects Do I Need?  
Random Sample Calculator - CustomInsight 
   Overview of Random Sampling 
RM Web - Stats Links  
Sample Size Calculator - Survey Systems 
Sample Size Discussion - Mill City 
StatsPage - Calculating and Stats links 
Statistics on the Web - Links 
Survey Gold - Analysis features 
Surveys and Sampling 
Survey Research Resources - Links
Understanding Sampling Errors 


                              Cost Per Return
	Total Cost of Survey 
Returns	$100 	$200 	$300 	$400 	$500 	$600 	$700 	$800 	$900 
50	2.00	4.00	6.00	8.00	10.00	12.00	14.00	16.00	18.00
75	1.33	2.67	4.00	5.33	6.67	8.00	9.33	10.67	12.00
100	1.00	2.00	3.00	4.00	5.00	6.00	7.00	8.00	9.00
125	0.80	1.60	2.40	3.20	4.00	4.80	5.60	6.40	7.20
150	0.67	1.33	2.00	2.67	3.33	4.00	4.67	5.33	6.00
175	0.57	1.14	1.71	2.29	2.86	3.43	4.00	4.57	5.14
200	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50	3.00	3.50	4.00	4.50
250	0.40	0.80	1.20	1.60	2.00	2.40	2.80	3.20	3.60
300	0.33	0.67	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00	2.33	2.67	3.00
350	0.29	0.57	0.86	1.14	1.43	1.71	2.00	2.29	2.57
400	0.25	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25	1.50	1.75	2.00	2.25

 

 

 

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Launched on April 15, 2003. Launched on azsrp.com January 1, 2001 (01/01/01).
Last updated December 31, 2003.