How To Write A Customer Survey Questionnaire

The key to writing a customer survey questionnaire is to understand the outcome you require before you start.

By knowing the direction your research and analysis needs to take enables you to write the perfect customer survey questionnaire.

All to often, the end analysis is ignored and the results from the research cannot be analysed to produce any worthwhile conclusions.

The first step when writing a customer survey questionnaire is to determine the audience for your research.

You need to know your audience well to be able to understand what they will know about the subject of the research and therefore how they will best respond to your questions.

The second step is to list out the main topics for your questions.

This list is then used to produce your questions. For each question, you should determine the type of question it is going to be eg. multiple choice, free text etc.

To make the analysis easier, it is better to try and use the major of questions as fixed answers rather than free text.

When you do use free text, try to guide the respondent into answering your question rather than using the free text to air their views on other subjects.

The third step is to determine the best method of response. It could be written questionnaire, online survey, telephone interview etc.

The forth step is to commence with the customer survey. This is the critical phase as the response level here will determine the overall quality and validity of your research.

However tempting it may be, you must never change your questions once the research has started. You need to maintain a constant questionnaire throughout the survey.

The fifth step is to produce the analysis. This is the part that moves your project from a simple customer survey questionnaire into a meanful project that draws conclusions.

Research analysis on its own is generally useless. The key is to take the research and highlight patterns, directions and conclusions.

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Derby lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the East Midlands.

Derby and Derbyshire were centres of Britain’s industrial revolution, which in the 18th century saw many cotton spinning mills being opened.

The beginning of the following century saw Derby emerge as an engineering centre, with manufacturers such as James Fox, who exported machine tools to Russia.

This tradition has continued, with Derby’s two biggest employers being Rolls-Royce and the Toyota Motor Corporation both being in the engineering manufacturing trade. Other companies include Bombardier, who manufacture train systems and aircraft, and Alstom, who manufacture large power plant boilers and heat exchangers.

Derby’s central location means it has extensive transport links with other areas of the country, the M1 motorway passes ten miles to the east of the city linking south to London and north to Sheffield and Leeds, making it ideal as a distribution centre.

East Midlands Airport is situated about fifteen miles from Derby, with services to a variety of internal and European destinations.

Derby is home to the University of Derby, which has two campuses, the main one lies on the A38 opposite Markeaton Park with a second campus in Buxton, known as the Devonshire campus, a grade II listed building which has a dome over 145ft in diameter, bigger than that of St Paul's Cathedral in London.