Survey on Surveys

Who are doing the surveys?

• college/education institutions
• Consulting firms on behalf of large commercial companies,

How are they currently doing the surveys?

• Through the Internet:
• Web browsers, CGI forms
• email
• phone surveys
• one-to-one interviews

On-line surveys

• have at least 20 questions on them
• all types of reply format, including paragraph-long replies!
• surveys run from the typical demographic surveys, to surveys on net addiction

Other methods to collecting information:

• User/Password
• Cookies
• Customize pages on user's preferences
• Judge effectiveness of pages/advertistments
• Not long term solution