Draft of a Short Telephonic Survey

Running head: DRAFT OF A SHORT TELEPHONIC SURVEY
DRAFT OF A SHORT TELEPHONIC SURVEY
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

1DRAFT OF A SHORT TELEPHONIC SURVEY
Part 1
Development of sampling strategy is the first step in conducting telephone surveys:
Pinpointing who should be interviewed, how to collect contact information for these individuals
and how to organise the sample population (Sinclair et al., 2012). In this telephonic survey
method ‘Probable Random Sampling’ method will be utilised to collect the data. Therefore,
every individual in that catchment area have a similar chance to be selected in the survey, so that
the actual representation of the community characteristics can be obtained from the survey
(Brugha et al., 2012). Simple Random Sampling method will be employed to avoid bias while
conducting the survey. However, one of the major limitations of this method is that this method
is not very efficient (Suresh & Chandrashekara, 2012).
A random digit dialling method will be employed to guarantee that households in the
local Community Health Services catchment area have equal opportunities to be contacted
whether their family is or not on a telephone directory. The telephonic sampling framework will
be updated to 2019 and will base on landline numbers excluding business numbers, unlisted
cellular and public exchanges (Vallance et al., 2014). Randomly generated number will be sent
to a pre -dialling (for screening purpose) firm to filter out those numbers before interviewer start
dialling the numbers for information collection activities. The primary advantages of Random
digit dialling is that, it has the capacity to select every household in the catchment area rather
than just households in a given list or directory (Vallance et al., 2014).

2DRAFT OF A SHORT TELEPHONIC SURVEY
Part 2
Hello, my name is ................................... I am with .....................................
I am not trying to sell anything at all to you. We are carrying out a short study to assist us in
defining who actually uses the local Community health service. It should take approximately 15
minutes to conduct the study. Is this a good time or should I call you later again? (If later,
schedule a time to call)
As honestly as possible, please answer these questions. Do not consume a lot of time considering
your replies. Please state the first reply that comes into your head.
Let’s start the survey.
1. Please state your gender
 Male
 Female
 Other (Please specify)
2. Please state your age
____________ (in years)
3. Please state what is the highest level of education that you have attained
 Postgraduate University
 Undergraduate University
 High school
 Secondary school
 Primary school
 Some additional training
4. Please state your marital status
 Single
 Married (1st time)
 Living with partner
 In a steady relationship