Questionnaire management !!!

??? Questionnaire management ???

"Questionnaire Management" Well this is a new term invented by me (Amar). i would like to share my experience regarding preparation of questionnaire. My topic of the project was "To study the content changes to be made MAIS (Mobile Agriculture information system)" .... Readers may be thinking what this MAIS is? .... MAIS indicates a service exclusively for farmers where they can get all the information regarding cultivation of MAIZE.

I prepared questionnaire to conduct a survey on this topic and i thought it was a good questionnaire but in realty when i went out in the field i found it difficult to communicate it to farmers (farmers are the target group). Even the farmers were NOT able to understand it.

The problem with the questionnaire was that it was

1) it was too complicated

2) it was difficult to communicate

3) it was very monotonous (i.e it was not allowing target group to interact)

So i decided to sort it out. So the things that i learnt from this mistake or experience is that

1) Always try to keep a questionnaire simple so that target group can understand what you are trying to communicate.

2) Keep very simple questions so that you can easily communicate.

3) Always keep some open ended questions so that your questionnaire can become interactive.