Know How: Forms

In this part of our KnowHow category you can find a variety of survey elements that you will need to use over and over again. This is to ease the survey design process, as you do not need to search the whole WWW in order to find the necessary information.

Just click on the relevant Link that will then transfer you to the page providing you with many examples. On there you can can easily copy the appropriate HTML source into your questionnaire. If something is missing or a form field is incomplete, please send us an email or use our contact form. We will then try to include hte new information as soon as possible. 

 
General

• Instruction
• Survey participation (general)  - offline and online
• How did you hear about this page/study/experiment?
• Access onto the Web (e.g. from home, office, internet cafe)

 
Demographic (gender, age, family)

• Marital Status
• Year of Birth and Age
• Gender and sexual orientation
• Religion
• Ethnic
• English = first language?

 
Education and Profession

• Profession
• Highest Level of Education
• Employment
• Study subject
• Study phase

 
Countries, states and counties

• States of Germany "Bundesländer"
• States of Austria
• States of the USA
• States of Switzerland "Kantone"
• Population figures
• Countries of the World

 
Technical

• Usage of the Internet (private/work; hours a week; since when)
• Bandwidth/transfer rate of the internet connection (e.g. modem, DSL)
• Operating System
• Browser (incl. version)
• Browser-functions (e.g. JavaScript, Cookies) and Plug-Ins
• Monitor size

Last Update: March 2003