Lecture: Two survey methods. Example 1: Unstructured method, these are usually open-ended questions that don't really look for specific information, questions like what you want the government do to improve our city. Example 2: Structured method, these are usually close-ended questions that look for specific information, questions like choose from the three to improve our city: building more bicycle trails, building more parks and planting more trees.
There are two ways to conduct a survey. The first way is unstructured method, which is to survey with open-ended questions. These questions don't really want to look for specific information. On the contrary, such questions focus on ideas that are beyond what have been previously known. For example, what do you want the government to do to improve our city? The second method is structured method, which adopts close-ended questions that look for specific information. Such questions will form a structure to narrow down answers. For example, please choose one solution out of the following three to improve our city: building more bicycle trails, building more parks and planting more trees. (112 words)
