Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit Step 1: Design draft survey It is important to design a survey well. You want a high response rate and answers that are easy to analyse. Carefully craft your questions to be direct, unambiguous and to give you the answers you are looking for. There are several types of survey questions: • Open-ended: requiring an explanation • Closed: usually requiring a one-word answer • Rating: requiring a choice to be made on a scale, usually from worst to best. Numbers (e.g. the Likert scale) or words can be used • Multiple choice: requiring a choice to be made from a group of answers • Picture choice: as with multiple choice but with pictures used • Demographic questions: can include any of the above but are aimed at finding out about the sub-categories of people completing the survey Figure 18: Example of types of survey questions Type of Question Example Open-ended How well does your NHRI include gender perspectives in its decision-making? Closed Does your NHRI include gender perspectives in its decisions making? Please tick your response Yes  Rating No  Does your NHRI includes gender perspectives in its decision-making? Please tick your response Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree nor Agree  Strongly agree disagree Multiple choice What areas of your NHRI effectively include gender perspectives in their decision-making? You may tick more than one response Commissioners/  Ombudspersons Senior  management Human  Resources Your unit /  division Demographic The responses to these questions are particularly useful when you want questions to disaggregate your data by specific groups such as gender, ethnicity, age, unit/division/role in your NHRI etc. 49