Ideas generated in this study provide an insight into participants' decision making and survey behaviour and may enhance the acceptability of future surveys to potential participants.
Since 1992, the French National Health Barometer, a 5-year periodic study by the French National Institute for Prevention and Health Education INPESS), has surveyed behaviours, attitudes, opinions and knowledge about health (e.g., alcohol consumption, tobacco use, drug consumption, physical activity) and evolution of the health of adolescents and adults in France.
The Health Impact Study Baseline Survey is a household survey of behaviours relating to water, sanitation and hygiene.
Qualitative research offers opportunities to explore with participants the reasons behind survey behaviour.
Randomised controlled trials have investigated aspects of postal survey design yet cannot elaborate on reasons behind participants' decision making and survey behaviour.
18 It consists of four different components: health interview survey, health behaviour survey, health examination and nutrition survey.
In order to survey the behaviour of choosing the alley area instead of a cubicle as a lying place (cubicle refusal), a questionnaire was sent to the 273 dairy farms in Norway known to keep cows in cubicle housing systems.
With reference to existing research on survey respondent behaviour and small group dynamics we discuss these differences; and we suggest how more research on focus group methodology is needed to further our understanding.
We use data from surface scatters of stone artefacts collected during pedestrian survey to compare behaviours at landform boundaries to behaviours at the centers of landforms.
The symptoms were taken from the questionnaire of the HBSC-survey (Health behaviour in School-Aged Children) and consisted of the following ones: headache, irritation, nervousness, dizziness, fatigue, fear and sleeping problems [ 24].
