I have gathered together some questions that could be asked on a survey or interview. You must rewrite the question to fit your target interviewee. Thus, substitute your thesis topic in the appropriate place. I have also created some demographic questions for you to use. Be sure to do something like these for the first five or so questions. Also, always have a clean interview sheet in your clipboard for each interview.

Parking Questionnaire

My name is --------------------.I am a student at Spokane Community College, and as the capstone project for our 201 class, each student must identify a problem on campus or in the community. After we research the problem, we are to interview stakeholders in the situation. My focus is the parking situation here on campus. I have collected some background information, but now I need to know if other people feel that there is a problem with the parking here on campus. Would you be willing to participate in this interview? To answer the questions will take anywhere from ten to fifteen minutes depending upon your responses. Also, if you give me an email address, I can send the results to you on completion of the project.

The first ten questions are demographics which will help me compare your answers with others.

  1. Name:

  2. Email address:

  3. Gender:
    Male
    Female

  4. To what age group do you belong?
    6-21
    22-30
    31-45
    46-65
    66+
    Other______

  5. What income level do you have?
    $0-14,000  
    $14,001-25,000
    $25,001-40,000
    $40,001-75,000
    $75,001+
    Other______

  6. Marital status:
    married
    divorced  
    remarried
    living with partner
    widowed
    single
    Other______

  7. Political choice:
    Democrat  
    Republican
    Independent
    Undecided  
    Other______

  8. Religion:
    Catholic
    Protestant
    Christian
    Buddhist
    Mormon
    Atheist
    Agnostic
    Other___________

  9. Ethnicity:
    Caucasian
    European
    Russian
    Afro-American
    Chicano Black
    Chinese
    Korean
    Vietnamese
    Mexican
    Spanish
    Italian
    Swedish
    Germanic 
    Islamic  
    Arabian
    Other______________________

  10. Educational status:
    no high school diploma
    high school diploma
    GED
    some college
    AA or AS
    BA or BS
    MA or MS
    Doctorate or JD
    Post Doc
    Other______

The following questions have a mix of yes and no responses combined with short answer responses. Feel free to ask for clarification at any time. Two types of questions can be asked on a survey: open-ended and closed. A good survey is comprised of each.

(Here are the questions you will draw from. Surely you can't ask all of these. You job is to find ones that will elicit pertinent responses from the audience. Asking questions about a person's belief in classroom / student ratio really would have nothing to do with the parking problem unless you are trying to draw parallels. Again you must change the questions to suit your topic. Try not to have more than fifteen to twenty questions, or your respondent will feel overwhelmed.)

Ideas: Some examples to guide you in writing your questions

  1. Do you believe in myths?
  2. What are the top 5 or 10 characteristics of a good myth?
  3. Are myths important to communities?
  4. Why do you think we are showing so many action hero movies right now?
  5. Are heroes important to a society?
  6. Are heroines important to society?
  7. What are the weakness of a myth?
  8. What are strengths of a myth?
  9. List three of most important myths.
  10. What kind of myth environment do you prefer?
  11. What motivates the creator of a myth?
  12. Does your family have any myths?
  13. What experience have you had with myths?
  14. How would you characterize your favorite myth?
  15. Do you believe that all people must go through the heroes journey?
  16. Have you begun your heroes journey?
  17. Do you have anything to contribute to this survey or can you think of a question we we should be asking that will help us understand myths/ heroes and their relationship to contemporary society?  (this should be the last question asked on any survey)
 
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