Survey Results

My Survey did not receive the amount of responses that I was expecting, right now (20/10/2015) I only have 10 responses, this was way below what I was expecting to get from the Survey from Survey Monkey. My Expectations was to get around 50-100 responses, since I sent it to around 2000 students within the school. It seems that what I expected was no where near what I got, Since this is only the preliminary task this means I can work on these mistakes to make sure things like this wont happen in the real task.

From the results from the other Surveys that was used to compare which one was the best.

SurveyMonkey: Does work fine, Complies results into graphs, Can view each individual response. There are limitations to the uses on SurveyMonkey when using a FREE account including only allowed a maximum of 100 responses

Google Form: It works quite well with the data collection and as far as we got with responses Google Forms does do things that you would have to pay to get from SurveyMonkey e.g. Having the data into an Excel File for easy individual analysis. Also the results shown for each question are somewhat displayed in a simpler way.

Smart Survey: Proven to be unreliable, the account for some reason no longer exists when login in and when trying to view the Survey.

Since there is a lack of responses and issue is that I cannot fully base the outcome of my Magazine with my response as there is not enough to base on the majority of people the Magazine will be targeted to. I cannot use the results to rely on how I should make the Magazine 100% though given the position I'm in this is the only thing I would be able to refer off.

In terms of what problems I've come across was that there was a lack of people responding to these surveys and this means that I will need to come up solutions to fix this. One Idea I have is to go up to people/groups/classes directly and ask them to take the survey, this would assure I could gain a fixed number of people taking the Survey having the people I would go directly to would be more likely to take the survey.

Another Idea would be to try asking around in a wider area, try people I know from other schools and see if they can get people there to participate in this.

I should also try to look for other ways to get results to assure I would still have some set of results to refer to if the Survey next time was also not as expected in the given results.

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Even though I got a low number of responses I did get some interesting ideas for content and colour schemes that would look good.
The results shown were when I had 14 responses.