Appendix 2
Evaluation questions
The following questions were included in both the Local Authority and Non-Local Authority questionnaires:
On a scale from 1 - 5 (where 1 is very helpful and 5 is very unhelpful), please indicate how helpful you found the guidance for the data collection?
On a scale from 1 - 5 (where 1 is very clear and 5 is very unclear) how would you rate the clarity of the guidance?
On a scale from 1 - 5 (where 1 is very satisfied and 5 is not at all satisfied), please rate your satisfaction with the following sections of the guidance:
- Summary
- Background
- General guidance
- Questions
- Definitions
Please add any further comments on the guidance for the data collection (free text).
Please estimate how long in hours it took to collect, collate and enter the information requested in this data collection (including time taken by others on your behalf). (Free text).
Including yourself, how many people within your organisation were involved in the collection, collation and entering of the information? (Free text).
Please identify which of these statements best describes the accessibility or otherwise of the information requested for each of the questions:
1. Information existed already and was readily accessible
2. Information existed already and was accessible with some effort
3. Information had to be collected specifically for this exercise
4. Did not answer this question
(Respondents were asked to answer this question separately for each National Priority).
Do you think that the week for which you reported data was a typical one for your organisation, in terms of levels of activity? (Drop down menu)
- Very typical
- Quite typical
- Quite untypical
- Very untypical
- Don't know
Please add any other comments about the process you were asked to undertake. (Free text)
On a scale from 1 - 5 (where 1 is very satisfied and 5 is not at all satisfied), please rate your satisfaction with this online return form as a way of reporting the information.
Please add any further comments about the online return. (Free text)
On a scale from 1 - 5 (where 1 is very useful and 5 is useless), please state your overall view of the usefulness of this data collection?
Please add any further views about the overall usefulness or otherwise of this data collection. (Free text).
Do you see the relevance of the data being collected to your own work? (drop down menu)
We plan to run this data collection annually. Would you be prepared to participate in it again? (Drop down menu)
Please state any information that you feel should be collected in future in a national data collection. (Free text)