ABARE survey of businesses in Australia's mining technology services sector, 2002
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F. Respondent Load
F1 Respondent load
On average, how long will a respondent be expected to spend in completing each questionnaire? How has this estimate been derived? Will the time taken by respondents to complete the survey be recorded? (F1)
Note. Mail-based surveys should include a 'time taken to complete questionnaire' question. For telephone interviews this 'time taken' information should be recorded.
A respondent is expected to spend (approximately) 30 minutes completing the survey. Results from four test companies indicate that this is an adequate length of time (20, 28, 30 and 60 minutes respectively). For recording purposes, the final question on the questionnaire requests that respondents provide an estimate of the time taken to complete the survey.
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F2 Reduction in respondent load
What steps have been taken to reduce the burden on small businesses, eg use of a reduced questionnaire? (F2)
The survey has been designed to minimise all respondent burden whilst trying to obtain a representative amount of information on the MTS sector.
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F3 Confidentiality
What commitments have been made to preserve the confidentiality of respondents? How will these be implemented? (F3)
Access to details of respondents is restricted. There is no external (non ABARE) access to ABARE data. Information will only be used in an aggregated form in the ABARE research report.
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