Questionnaire Evaluation

I have made a questionnaire which will help me with my research on a school magazine I am trying to create. I’ve asked 7 questions to random people in the school to have their opinion on what they would like to see in the school magazine.

The first question I asked was the person’s gender. I did this because I found that it is important to get the males and females view on the magazine as our school is a mixed school where both gender has a right. I have also made sure that I handed out equal amount of questionnaire to the females and males so that it will have a fair result in the end.

I questioned 20 people so I had 10 males and 10 females who filled this in.

The second question which I asked was “which of these would you like to see in our school magazine?” there were choices given to them to tick one box so that I could be more specific in creating my magazine.

Here were the results:

	Male	Female	Total
Sports	4	1	5
Computer & gadgets	2	0	2
Fashion	1	4	5
Food	0	1	1
Culture & Language	0	0	0
Arts & textiles	1	2	3
History	0	0	0
Politics	0	0	0
Music	2	2	4
About the school	0	0	0
Other	0	0	0

From my results you can see that sports come out most popular for males and fashion for females. Both Sports and Fashion are the most popular with Music and Arts not too far behind. So the results make a judgement on what I shall be putting in the school magazine.

The third question that I asked was “how much would you usually spend on a magazine?”

Here were my results:

	Male	Female	Total
0-99p	7	5	12
£1-£2.50	1	2	3
£2.50-£5	1	2	3
£5 or more	1	1	2

From my results I can see that the cheaper the magazine is the better sales I would get from it. As most people say they wouldn’t spend over £5 for a magazine.

Next question asked was “which of these colours would attract you at first sight?”

Here were my results:

	Male	Female	Total
Blue	4	5	9
Red	3	1	4
Green	1	1	2
Purple	1	2	3
Yellow	0	0	0
Pink	1	1	2

From these results I can see that blue is the most popular colour that attracts the reader’s attention and yellow which is unpopular on both gender categories.

Next question in which I asked was “what gets your attention on the front cover of the magazine?” and here were my results:

	Male	Female	Total
Images	7	5	12
Fonts	2	2	4
Colours	1	3	4
Gifts	0	0	0

From my results that I have gathered information that more people find that images are the first thing they look at on a magazine before the fonts, colours etc. You can also see that gifts doesn’t impress because maybe everyone has grown out of the free presents which magazines give you.

The next question that I asked was more open. I asked “what wouldn’t you want in the magazine”. I asked this because I don’t want to waste space in the magazine and make it so boring that no one would want to read it.

I couldn’t come up with a table for this result because there were all different answers and some did not answer.

The next question I asked was “Do you read any other magazines?” because I felt this would also help me to know what type of genre people would like to see in the magazine.