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Thread ID: 15731	2002-02-15 10:10:00	How to put a Questionare on the Net?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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35812	2002-02-15 10:10:00	Hi guys, I am doing a research for my final year project from social studies. I have a questionare of around 150 questions (open questions, multiple choices questions, and single choice questions) that I would like to put on the net. A sample of around 400 people would be sent a link to the site and asked to answer the questionare. I would like to know what is the best way to do something like that and what is needed? I would be able to designing a questioner in html (html forms), but what do i need in order to collect the data so that it can be processed quckly as possible. How about designing questioner in the shape of MS ACCESS forms and than exporting them to the web? Again what do i need in order to collect responses from those people? Will the web server (for members pages) provided by paradise.net be able to support something like that? I also have IIS and a cable connection. Would that be more viable solution? Needles to say any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!	Guest (0)
35813	2002-02-15 13:42:00	What is the nature of your survey? Unless the population is limited to those online, an online survey will not give you statistically valid results. You will also find that unless you have software packages designed to help with online surveys, it will be more trouble than it is worth. The designing of all the software necessary to administer, collect, collate and store a statistical test is in itself a major software engineering project.	Guest (0)
35814	2002-02-15 22:10:00	Probably the cheapest way is to create an HTML form and set the action to reply to an email address. You'd then be able to cut and paste into a database (or experiment with saving the email as a text file and importing it into Excel). To save directly to a database would mean using ASP or Cold Fusion (server side applications). This would entail paying hosting costs as well. Social Studies. School or University? If University - see the IT dept and ask if they have a student willing to do it for practise and if the servers can host it. If school - see the IT teacher and ask if he knows anyone wanting to have a go.	Guest (0)
35815	2002-02-15 23:39:00	Hi - you seem to have the right idea - a web host that can support a database program is required - MySql should do - if it's hosted on an NT server then you could use MS Access. I doubt that Paradise' member's pages would offer that. The form would be created as you say in html - but again your host would need to support php or provide you with a cgi-bin folder or have preset cgi's installed. If you can't find a free host to provide this for you post back here and I could offer you a temporary site for a nominal cost.	Guest (0)
35816	2002-02-15 23:54:00	Many thanks to all of you good people for responding so quickly, now i have a bit clearer idea what needs to be done. I am going to start my project next week and if i 'stubmle' somewhere i sure will be free to ask you few questions again. Cheers	Guest (0)
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