***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Beate: I would use a nomination approach asking that respondents write in the names of the organizations, allowing 7 or even 12 organizations to be written it. The system can be designed to complete the names after the first few letters are typed. - Tom Sissenich, Beate wrote: >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > >Hello All, > >I'm currently preparing an electronic survey of contacts among ca. 175 >organizations. In order to avoid respondent fatigue, I need a clever way >of designing the questionnaire so that the list of 175 nodes doesn't >seem quite so overwhelming. Ideally, I'd like to capture 5 different >relation types. > >Does anyone have any suggestions on how to design this questionnaire to >make it user-friendly? Examples of surveys that others have administered >would be particularly helpful. > >Many thanks in advance. > >Beate > >_____________________________________ >Beate Sissenich >Assistant Professor >Department of Political Science >Indiana University >Woodburn Hall 403 >Bloomington, IN 47405-7110 >Ph: 812-855-4198 >[log in to unmask] >http://mypage.iu.edu/~bsisseni/ >_____________________________________ > >_____________________________________________________________________ >SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social >network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send >an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line >UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > > -- To learn more about my evaluation book go to: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195141768.html My personal webpage: http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~tvalente/ --- Thomas W. Valente, PhD Director, Master of Public Health Program http://www.usc.edu/medicine/mph/ Department of Preventive Medicine School of Medicine University of Southern California 1000 S. Fremont Ave. Building A Room 5133 Alhambra CA 91803 phone: (626) 457-6678 fax: (626) 457-6699 email: [log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.