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Website for creating online surveys? (or software?)

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daba

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking to create a survey/questionnare online. It's going to be sent out to a couple hundred participants and needs to be up for a few months or so, or until all participants have responded. Does anyone know of a good preferabbly free or fairly inexpensive pay-to-use survey website or software I can get a hold of to create something like this? Preferabbly not more than $15-$20/mo. for hosting the survey.

It must have a good way of keeping track of individual responses (e.g. NOT sending individual responses to an e-mail address or something inefficient like that) and have the ability to make comprehensive surveys featuring radio buttons, check boxes, and open-response questions. Also, it must be accessible online; I don't want software that simply creates surveys for me to e-mail or print out.

I've checked out www.surveyconsole.com and their basic pay-package seems pretty fair at $15/mo. Although, I don't know how long this survey will be up and I don't want to keep paying for their services. Other than that, perhaps I could obtain software to create something that would let me host it on my own website?

Thank you!
 
I've participated in research surveys where the researchers used http://www.surveymonkey.com. Seems OK, I guess. They have a freebie program, but it sounds like you would want some of the features in the $20/month package.

But this is really rather easy to code yourself - just basic PHP/HTML forms feeding into an SQL server. If you're at all into that kind of thing, it's worth spending a little time learning. It's a handy tool, and it blows non-techie bosses away when you can whip up a little form like that to help them with their data-driven mumbo-jumbo buzzword-of-the-month.
 
Hmm looked at surveymonkey but it seems a little unprofessional by name. And, I'm working with an engineering professor so... but I guess it'd be fun to learn in my spare time.
 
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