Equality: Fair Work

Taking Fair Work Forward

3. Activity – create a survey

This activity is a practice to get you thinking about how to create impactful surveys that can help inform your Equality Rep role. This is just for practice, so please expect your fellow Fair Work Forward participants to answer some aspects of your draft dishonestly! We would like you to include a demographic question and we have a sample that is small and easily identifiable, so we encourage you to respond to the demographic question of others’ survey, randomly.

Consider, first of all, your purpose, in relation to reasonable adjustments, and the key objectives – what is it that you want to investigate and why? For example, if your purpose is to find out about Equality Reps’ experience of reasonable adjustments, you could ask questions related to:

  • If Equality Reps have experience related to reasonable adjustments
  • What reasonable adjustments they have experience with

Think about how you would frame your questions clearly and concisely, and how you would like to gather answers (multiple choice, open-ended, etc.).

  1. Open and create an account on SurveyMonkey
  2. Choose “start your survey from scratch” and enter survey title
  3. Choose one demographic question to ask participants, so you can analyse the data in relation to this. For example, whether respondents would be considered disabled under the Equality Act (2010) definition? This could be a yes/no answer as multiple choice.
  4. Remember to include the definition of Disability under the Equality Act (2010), so respondents know if this applies to them. Do this by pressing “Page Title” and entering a description. Press “Save”.
  5. Select another type of question and repeat the process. Remember to keep these concise and clear.
  6. Finally, select a third question that fits with a text box answer, this is where you will get your detail, examples etc.
  7. Press the “Next” button to preview your survey.
  8. Under the “Collect Responses” tab, select “Send surveys your way” and “share survey link”.
  9. Make sure your survey doesn’t include any paid features, such as ranking questions.
  10. Paste the survey link into your Padlet and fill out others’ surveys!
  • You can now come back to SurveyMonkey at any time and review your findings.

Please move on to the Next Topic when you are done with this page – you can always return to view it again later on.

Now log into your Padlet to record your reflections, questions and notes. At the end of the week, please comment on at least one other participant’s reflections on the Padlet. 

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