Date
Our Ref.
Dear
,
Testing Questions about {xxxxxx}
Thank you for agreeing to take part in this study including a range of topics such as your
health, welfare services and attitudes towards different age groups. Your help is greatly
appreciated. This letter confirms the time, date and name of the interviewer who will be
coming to see you {MODIFY IF BEING DONE IN LAB}. It also provides some more
information about the study and who to contact if you have any questions or concerns.
Information about the study
This study is being carried out by {NAME OF YOUR ORGANISATION – e.g. the National
Centre for Social Research (NatCen), an independent research institute}, on behalf of The
World health Organisaiton, European Social Survey, Eurostat and the United Nations who
wants to get a better understanding about these issues and has asked us (NAME OF YOUR
ORG) to develop some new questions that would be included on {X’s survey in the future}.
We would like to try out these new questions on people such as yourself, to see if they are
clear and can be understood, so that we can decide whether the questions are working
properly. Your help is very important and we hope that you will enjoy taking part.
You do not need any specific knowledge to take part and everything you say will be treated in
strict confidence. No information about you will be shared anyone outside the project research
team made up of researchers from institutions developing these questions for the
organisations sponsoring the surveys. This research will be written up as a report, but you will
not be identified in it and what you say will not be linked with your name and address. The
interview will last approximately one hour and will be recorded.
{INCLUDE IF PAYING AN INCENTIVE - As a token of our appreciation you will receive
{WHATEVER IS BEING OFFERED E.G. a £20 gift voucher} for taking part in the research.
We very much look forward to meeting you. If you have any questions before the interview
please contact {NAMED CONTACT, TELEPHONE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS. IF
POSSIBLE ALSO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE CONTACT PERSON}.
Thank you again,
The Interview will take place at {ADD DETAILS, E.G your home, address of venue} on:
Date:……………………………………………………………………………..
Time:…………………………………………………………………………….
Name of Interviewer:……………………………………………………………