Physical survey with unique code to submit results online
Hi all!
I’m not a trained researcher, but I’m helping conduct a neighborhood-wide sociological survey on a sensitive/controversial topic. We’ll be hand-delivering paper surveys through the neighborhood newsletter and setting up physical drop-off locations for responses.
Ideally, we’d also like to offer an online submission option. However, past surveys on this topic have been skewed by responses from people outside the neighborhood who feel strongly about the issue. Our goal is simply to understand the perspectives of residents in our community (about 5,000 people).
Does anyone have suggestions for how to limit responses to neighborhood residents when collecting them online? One idea I had was assigning each paper survey a unique code that could be used for online submission, but I’m not sure what platforms support that kind of setup.
If anyone knows of a tool that could work for this, or has alternative approaches to prevent outside responses from skewing results, I’d really appreciate your input.
Thanks so much!
(also let me know if there is a better sub for this Q!)