Project Management
If postal surveys are not part of your everyday business, or you just don’t want to concern yourself with all the details, IfaD can offer worry-free, all-in-one project management. Naturally you can also pick and choose individual components of this service.
Project Handover and Preparation
You deliver us the questionnaire(s) together with a standard letter of invitation as MS Word documents, and the addresses in an Excel file. We prepare the various elements and allocate respondent numbers to each questionnaire.
Lettershop Handling with Partners
For printing and mailing, we cooperate with a reliable and experienced lettershop, which handles the printing of questionnaires, invitations, reminders and envelopes, stuffing, optimization of postage costs, and delivery to the mail service.
Handling Returns and Reminders
Returns are sent to a special postbox created for each project. Our Data Support team controls the incoming questionnaires by reference to the respondent numbers and check codes. The lettershop undertakes the sending of reminders.
Data Entry, Scanning, Coding, Tabulation
Fig. 1: Schematic process of a postal survey, simplified
We punch and scan the incoming questionnaires, and code the open questions, throughout the whole fieldwork period. After the close of fieldwork, you receive a table set with the full tabulation of all closed and open responses.
