Designing a Data Collection sheet

Trialling a questionnaire

Once you have written a questionnaire it can be a good idea to try it out on a small sample of people. This is called a pilot survey.

Note down their responses and use these to improve any questions that are causing difficulty.

Do I use a tick or a cross to show the box I

want?

What does this question mean?

I don’t want to answer this question because

it’s too personal.

There isn’t a box to cover my answer.

Designing a data collection sheet

A data collection sheet can be used to record data that comes from counting, observing or measuring.

It can also be used to record responses to specific questions.

For example, to investigate a claim that the amount of TV watched has an impact on weight we can use the following:

age gender height (cm) weight (kg) hours of TV watched per week

Using a tally chart

When collecting data that involves counting something we often use a tally chart.

For example, this tally chart can be used to record people’s favourite snacks.

favourite snack tally frequency

crisps

fruit

nuts

sweets

The tally marks are recorded, as responses are collected,and the frequencies are then filled in.

13

6

3

8