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The difference between random representative and open access surveys

March 2nd, 2024|

When conducting community research there are two key ways that we can source respondents. Below explains the differences between these two methods to help you select the most appropriate one for your project (some projects will use both).
Representative Surveys
Purpose: to understand the whole community.

In a representative survey, we aim to get a snapshot of […]

What is going on with VPHS?

October 1st, 2021|

The Victorian Population Health Survey (VPHS) is an annual survey run by VicHealth to track the health and wellbeing of Victorians. Every 3 years since 2008, the survey has been conducted at an LGA level (n=400 sample per Local Government area) and this local data is often used by Councils to inform their health […]

COVID-19 Survey snapshot

August 24th, 2020|

To date the COVID-19 Community survey has been collecting data from communities across 4 Council areas in Victoria.

Here is a quick snapshot of what we are seeing in the data to date.

For further information about the survey see https://asdfresearch.com.au/covid-19-survey/.

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease response planning

March 13th, 2020|

In light of the WHO classification of COVID-19 as a pandemic, ASDF Research has implemented the following risk management processes. These risk management processes do not impact on the scope of any current ASDF Research project commitments.

In the interest of minimising public risk, until further notice, ASDF Research will not be undertaking any […]

Response code sets

April 7th, 2016|

Here are some of the best practice response code sets for question design:

Satisfaction rating
Very satisfied
SatisfiedNeither satisfied nor dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
Very dissatisfied

Importance rating
Very important
Important
Moderately important
Of little importance
Not at all important

Quality
Extremely good
Above average
Average
Below average
Extremely poor

Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor

Safety
Very safe
Safe
Neither
Unsafe
Very unsafe

Frequency
Daily or most days
2-3 times a week
Weekly
Fortnightly
Monthy
Every 2-3 months
2-3 times a year
Annually
Less often
Never

sometimes the following code frame is used, but it […]