# Survey Design Resources

**URL:** <https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/survey-design-resources/445>\
**Category:** Design\
**Created:** [March 29, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/survey-design-resources/445 "2019-03-29T20:52:02Z")\
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Capturing a Slack conversation. Reply in this thread if you have more survey design resources!

> @nickkauf[Mar 20th at 8:38 AM](https://cfa.slack.com/archives/C026E1G02/p1553096333422400)  
> any resources on good survey design?

From @mhorowski :

- [SO YOU WANNA MAKE A SURVEY - Google Docs](http://tinyurl.com/surveyCFAhandout)
- Validated survey questions on hundreds of topics:  
[Index Of Scale Labels](https://ipip.ori.org/newIndexofScaleLabels.htm)
- [SURVEYS\_CFA - Google Slides](http://tinyurl.com/surveyCFAslides)

From Andrew Nelson:

- [“Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches” (chapter 8.1)](http://www.researchgate.net%2Ffile.PostFileLoader.html%3Fid%3D55eb95f16307d984de8b4584%26assetKey%3DAS%253A273846907670528%25401442301598571)

- [“Keep Online Surveys Short”](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/keep-online-surveys-short/)

- [“A Quantitative Review of Research Design Effects on Response Rates to Questionnaires.”](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3151410)

- [“Using email questionnaires for research: Good practice in tackling non-response.”](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233613122_Using_email_questionnaires_for_research_Good_practice_in_tackling_non-response)

From Amanda:

> amanda [9 days ago]  
> +1 for keeping them short. You can always do another survey, but you can’t stop people from dropping out of the current one!

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