{"id":194,"date":"2011-03-26T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T08:33:14","slug":"what-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/?page_id=194","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We were initially concerned about the complexity of the household survey form and whether respondents would understand the task in hand.\u00a0 The pilot study was a very useful exercise here, providing useful feedback and reassurance.\u00a0 There were a few minor issues; some people only filled in part of the form, work trips may be underreported in some surveys completed by Dunbar Grammar School pupils, but a great deal of useful information has been obtained which will help to focus future projects.<\/li>\n<li>It was found that the use of short questionnaires which can be quickly completed was very effective for single subject issues, but has to be balanced against survey fatigue; is there a better response rate from a detailed form dealing with many issues or lots of small surveys?\u00a0 Take survey fatigue into consideration when preparing a programme of surveys and make it as short as possible (1-2 months max. as people start to lose interest after that).<\/li>\n<li>Programme plenty of time for survey analysis!\u00a0 If the survey is a success with a good response rate, there will be an awful lot of information to make sense of.<\/li>\n<li>Make use of smaller neighbourhood groups such as resident&#8217;s associations, parent and child groups etc.\u00a0 This makes the project more personal to people and results in better responses.\u00a0 It also leads to good publicity via word of mouth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were initially concerned about the complexity of the household survey form and whether respondents would understand the task in hand.\u00a0 The pilot study was a very useful exercise here, providing useful feedback and reassurance.\u00a0 There were a few minor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/?page_id=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}