Paper surveys

What is Paper surveys?

Increase response rates and reach hard-to-reach communities with Paper surveys

Paper surveys offer all targeted participants the same opportunity to participate. You can increase the overall response rate of a broader research project, and participants are assured that their answers are confidential.

Paper surveys, ready to print and distribute

Templates ensure that your paper questionnaire is great and easy to complete. Each template is also customizable if you want to have more control over how your search looks.

1.             Show routing instructions in the survey

2.             Print surveys in any size and format, including booklet

3.             Print pre-filled address information to fit window envelopes

4.             Customize surveys with stored information such as participant name, address, or unique ID

5.             Edit text and questions simultaneously in the paper, online, and mobile versions of your survey

6.             Print multiple language versions of the same search

Comprehensive data validation

Errors during data entry can seriously affect the validity of your search results. Paper surveys have advanced validation checks to ensure that data is entered accurately, providing confidence in the results.

1.             Response-specific validation checks (for example, quantity or period)

2.             Ignoring unintentionally answered questions

3.             Detailed data entry statistics verify the speed and accuracy of data entry

4.             Apply standards to validate participants' responses for consistent, high-quality data. For example, date, time, or your own unique ID

Scan completed paper surveys with Paper surveys

Speed up the data entry process for large volumes of paper surveys with Snap Scanning Edition. It is a fast, efficient and economical complement, which allows you to digitize the completed paper questionnaires.

1.             Scan an unlimited number of surveys.

2.             Scan simplex and duplex surveys in a wide variety of sizes.

3.             Automatically orient tilted pages, upside down.

4.             Automatic recognition of changed and crossed out responses.

5.             Handles surveys of virtually any size

6.             Includes a comprehensive data cleansing section, which keeps a record of which cases have been scanned and interpreted and which have outstanding issues

7.             Records open response images for printing, searching, encoding, or typing

System Requirements

Windows 10, 8.x, 7.

Windows Server 2008 or later required for network editing.

JavaScript-enabled browser, such as Chrome, Firefox ou Internet Explorer 8 ou posterior.

A modern PC with at least 250 MB of free disk space.

Server installation requires 400 MB on the server and 25 MB on clients.

Requires an ISIS-compliant scanner or a scanner capable of producing TIFF or PDF images.