Survey Question Bank
Welcome to the Survey Question Bank (SQB), co-ordinated by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.
Who is the SQB for?
- social and economic researchers, wishing to find survey questions and search questionnaires as part of their ‘pre-analysis’
- commissioners/managers of social research, working in all sectors, interested in seeing whether and how questions on their topics of interest have been framed in other surveys
- teachers of survey methods (see Learning and teaching zone) with a specific interest in questionnaire design/methodology (see Data collection zone)
- Ph.D./postgraduate students
What information does the SQB hold?
The SQB provides access to the questionnaires, in PDF format, from a range of major UK and cross-national social surveys conducted, for the most part, since the mid-1990s. These questionnaires - which are fully searchable - are displayed in their original context, allowing users to better understand the context in which a particular question was asked.
The service has also recently released a survey question search which provides access to over 200,000 questions from more than 50 survey series.
In addition, the SQB writes and commissions methods fact sheets and topic overviews - vital to making sense of the questions and the data created from them.
The SQB does not hold/make available survey data or results - instead try Locate variables.
