The power of survey monkey

I'm doing a medium scale study of Child Welfare in West Virginia. My original protocol called for a mail survey of Child Protective Workers, Attorneys, and assorted support staff. Since the majority of these people now have access to the Internet at work, we decided to change the protocol to a web-survey.

This morning a link to the survey was sent out to all Child Protective Services personnel in the State. After 4 hours, I have approximately 25% of our anticipated responses in. Since we used a web-based data collection strategy, these responses come to me pre-coded and ready to analyze. In these 4 short hours, the $200 I spent for full access to Survey Monkey has more than paid for itself.

I am a fan of Survey Monkey.