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Principles of survey research: part 3: constructing a survey instrument

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Barbara A. Kitchenham,

Shari Lawrence PfleegerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 27, Issue 2

Pages 20 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511155

Published: 01 March 2002 Publication History

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In this article, we discuss how to construct a questionnaire. We point out the need to use any previous research results to reduce the overheads of survey construction. We identify a number of issues to consider when selecting questions, constructing questions, deciding on the type of question and finalizing the format of the questionnaire.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 27, Issue 2

March 2002

78 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/511152

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