EQUAL - Final report - eng - navreme

EVALUATION OF CIP EQUAL TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLE
Graph 3: Structure of all processed questionnaires from set of questions no.2 (managing structures) according to
the respondent’s country of origin (in total 34 questionnaires; the respondents from the Czech Republic represent
ca. 23,5 %)
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
8
Czech Republic
3 3
United Kingdom
Austria
Countries
[managing structures]
2 2 2
THE RETURNABILITY OF QUESTIONNAIRES
Poland
France
Portugal
1 1 1
0 0
As it has been already stated herein above, in total, there were received 254 questionnaires,
while there were 1,717 e-mail addresses addressed successfully; thus, the returnability of
questionnaires is 14.8 %. The questionnaire was distributed on-line in the following language
versions: Czech, English, Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish. Although the team
took a decision (despite the original offer that was counting only on the Czech and English versions)
to translate the questionnaire to the languages of all eleven countries where the investigations were
effected (or rather ten because in case of Slovakia good knowledge of Czech was expected), the step
did not positively lead to increased returnability. Availability of a particular language version thus has
no direct causal connection with the returnability of questionnaires, in our case this is true especially
as regards France and Italy, where the returnability is far below the average, contrary to the high
returnability achieved in the case of addresses targeted with the invitation to participate written in
English despite probably addressing persons of various nationalities – those were generic domains
(e.g. .com, .org, etc), and especially representatives of CIP EQUAL managing structures and
representatives of the European Commission (under the “other country” section in the graph).
Graph 4 shows that Portugal, Poland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom and
undifferentiated countries are above the average returnability, while all the other countries are below
the average. The dark blue column marks the number of filled in questionnaires, and the rest of the
column the number of addressed addresses per respective country. The red points mark the
questionnaire returnability per respective country. Hereto, we add the following methodological note:
while the number of the addressed shows the numbers of e-mail addresses with the proper national
domain (e.g. the number of addresses ending with .de means the number of addresses addressed in
Germany); the filled-in questionnaires were differentiated by countries, not by home domains because
the questionnaires were anonymous, and so the country that a respondent stated at the beginning of
the questionnaire. Theoretically, it is therefore possible that a respondent from Brussels stated
Germany as the country of origin, but having been addressed by the English version of the letter as
Navreme Boheme, s.r.o. 68
Germany
Spain
The Netherlands
Italy
Slovakia
11
other