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8.3 Questionnaire Survey
EVALUATION OF CIP EQUAL TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION PRINCIPLE
THE SUMMARY OF THE OUTCOMES FROM THE
QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY
There have been created two sets of questions and identified those questions that complement and
verify one another, and especially serve for the comparing among individual groups. The
questionnaire was commented on several times and the final version of the questions was
subsequently translated from English to Czech, Polish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
The questionnaires were distributed solely in their electronic version through a web application which
enables a form to be filled in a safe and comfortable manner and sent off on-line and anonymously.
Data are directly downloaded to a database, which considerably increases the efficiency of their
further processing. The questionnaire is anonymous, however, two identification questions were asked
in the preamble to the questionnaire (the country of origin and the type of a target group) so as the
target groups addressed by means of the questionnaire might be differentiated. Furthermore, the
identified target groups were addressed by means of e-mail and through an information campaign
with an accompanying information message containing the website address where the questionnaire
might be filled in, briefly explained the purpose of the questionnaire and the whole evaluation, and
also contained the name of the commissioning entity, the authorizing letter written by MoLSA, and the
contact data in case there should arise any questions to be asked. The contact data (e-mail
addresses) for the addressing of potential respondents from individual target groups were obtained
partly from the commissioning entity, partly from the website of CIP EQUAL (specifically from the
database of ECDB) and from other related websites (e.g. http://www.transnationality.eu/). However,
the contact data obtained from the above mentioned publicly accessible sources were not valid in all
the cases therefore the data provided directly by the commissioning entity played an essential role.
Letters written in the above specified languages were sent to the collected contact addresses.
Shortly before the time limit (15 June 2008) set for the questionnaire to be filled in expired, notices
had been distributed on 8 June 2008 which increased the returnability of the questionnaire. A number
of respondents sent in questions concerning both the investigations by means of questionnaires and
the results of the evaluation. All the questions were answered in the same language as was the
language of the question sent in.
The link to the electronic questionnaire was distributed to 1,786 e-mail
addresses 11 , while 69 of these were returned as undeliverable (i.e. there were 1,717
addresses addressed successfully); the 254 obtained questionnaires represent 14.8 %
returnability. Out of these, 219 questionnaires contained the set of questions targeting
representatives of Development Partnerships, clients of the services created under EQUAL projects
(target groups of the projects), members of National Thematic Networks, independent experts and
potential applicants; the set contained 21 questions and is only referred to as “projects” hereinafter.
The remaining 35 questionnaires were filled in by representatives of MA, NSS, the Payment Authority,
the European Commission, the Monitoring Committee and politicians and policy-makers in the areas of
HRD and ESF; the set contained thirteen questions in total and is only referred to as “managing
structures” hereinafter. None of the questions – except for the questions concerning the country of
origin and the type of the respondent with respect to CIP EQUAL – was compulsory. The reason for
asking the two compulsory questions is that they served to identify the questionnaire as regards the
country and the target group.
As regards the target group identification and the differentiation between the sets of questions,
the following breakdown was used:
11 To 302 addresses in CR in total and 346 in IT, 134 in DE, 98 in UK, 13 in IE, 98 in PL, 219 in FR,
101 in SK, 43 in AT, 109 in NL, 179 in ES, 90 in PT and 54 more without any differentiation for
the English version.
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