{"id":19733,"date":"2016-02-23T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2022-12-26T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T04:20:12","slug":"survey-puzzle-pieces-to-improve-your-research-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/survey-puzzle-pieces-to-improve-your-research-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Puzzle &#8211; Pieces to Improve Your Research Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a written questionnaire with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/survey-software\/\">survey platform<\/a> is just not enough anymore for effective marketing research. In fact, it\u2019s really nothing, not even next to nothing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Survey cooperation rates have&nbsp;plummeted&nbsp;from 43 percent in 1997 to 14 percent in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Online survey responses rates are even&nbsp;sadder. Some studies show participation rates averaging 2 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone is taking a slice of the survey pie, including Google and Twitter. This has translated into more competition. Thus, a collective respondent fatigue has settled over the population. As an example, one survey firm, Mindshare Technologies, conducts&nbsp;60 million surveys every year. That\u2019s an eye-watering 175,000 per day!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These statistics are just scratching the research surface. They don\u2019t even mention the bombardment of information on consumers that has, in effect, shortened their attention span and patience for surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t panic. All of this information just means one thing: more care needs to be afforded to writing questionnaires and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/how-to-make-sure-that-your-online-surveys-are-received-and-opened\/\">delivery of online surveys<\/a>. The \u201cmore care\u201d is presented in the below infographic, based on qSample\u2019s article <em>7 Hellish Ways You\u2019re Burning Your Online Survey Respondents<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Really, don\u2019t panic. At the end of the infographic, entitled <em>Survey Puzzle<\/em>, you won\u2019t be the one puzzled at why your survey data is incomplete and faulty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Survey-Puzzle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Survey-Puzzle.png\" alt=\"The Survey Puzzle\" width=\"800\" height=\"2935\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a written questionnaire with a survey platform is just not enough anymore for effective marketing research. 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