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EBOM-2009 SSc4:Alternative Commuting Transportation

Survey methodology

Hi, Concerning the survey, i would like to have your opinion about the stastiscal viability of my method. The building population (1000) is made up of different departments with their own area in the building. We have defined a number X of individuals to interview per derpartements depending its workforce. During the last day of the week, we want to travel in the building and submit the survey to X persons randomly seleced in each departments (X depending of the departement). According to you, Does this method seem acceptable ? Does the test population enough choose in a random way ? Thank you.

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Thu, 04/11/2013 - 15:04

Aurelien, can you provide more information about how you plan to choose which people to survey? Your plan for splitting up the number that are posed to a given tenant sounds good, but the other key thing is how you are choosing individuals (e.g., don't walk up to the people who are wearing bike helments or look like alternative transportation users). Good options would be to randomize a list of names using Excel or a similar tool, or alphabetizing the names and surveying every 10th person, etc.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 15:31

Thank you for your suggestion. I going to consider them.

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