Population Reports Readers' Survey

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Population Reports'Readers' Survey

Please complete and submit this short survey about Population Reports. Your participation is very important and completely voluntary. We are seeking the guidance and advice of readers to keep the journal relevant and up to date. Your responses will help assure that Population Reports continues to meet the needs of it's readers around the world. The questionnaire is short and should only take a few minutes to complete.

The survey addresses two main issues:

What topics should future Population Reports issues cover?
In what ways has Population Reports helped your work?

Instructions

Please note that there are several types of questions:

Some answers to questions will be based on a scale (1-5) provided with the question.
Some questions will require ONLY ONE answer from the choices.
Some questions will allow more then one answer to be selected.
Some will ask for you opinion and require you to write in your response.

When you have completed the questionnaire, please submit your answer. We thank you for taking the time to answer this questionnaire.

I. Professional Discipline

Please describe your primary and secondary responsibilities in the population/family planning/health field.

Primary (check only one)
Policy-making or policy advice
Service delivery (medical)
Service delivery (administrative)
Information, education, communication
Research
Teaching or training
Other

Secondary (check only one)
Policy-making or policy advice
Service delivery (medical)
Service delivery (administrative)
Information, education, communication
Research
Teaching or training
Other

Please give the name of your country.

II. Future Topics for Population Reports

The following topics have been suggested for future issues of Population Reports. Please check each of the following proposed topics for usefulness in your work related area:

1. Population and Environment 2. Contraceptive Methods 3. HIV/AIDS 4. Breastfeeding 5. Youth	6. Program Development 7. Communication 8. Review of recent news on all reproductive health topics. 9. Family Planning Service Delivery 10. Research
Please list below any other report topics that deserve high priority.

III. Impact of Population Reports

What part(s) of Population Reports do you find most useful? (Check as MANY as you wish.)

Editors' summary (first two pages)
Graphs and tables
Information on program activities worldwide
Information on law and policy worldwide
Summaries of results of biomedical research
Summaries of results of social science, survey, or program research
Recommended protocols for care and treatment (e.g., IUD insertion, STD treatment)
Training information
Bibliography
None

Do you think Population Reports are:

Too long?
About the right length?
Too short?

Would you like Population Reports to be:

More technical?
Remain as they are?
Less technical?

Population Reports tries to serve the functions listed below. In (a) please indicate the effectiveness of Population Reports for each function. In (b) please indicate whether the function has served YOU directly, and in (c) please specify how YOU yourself have used Population Reports for this function.

(1)	Conveying news of important developments
	(a) Please rate effectiveness of Population Reports not effective moderately effective very effective
	(b) Have YOU learned about important developments from Population Reports? yes no
	(c) If yes, please give specific examples.
(2)	Providing background for policy formulation
	(a) Please rate effectiveness of Population Reports not effective moderately effective very effective
	(b) Have YOU used Population Reports to help with policy-making? yes no
	If yes, please give specific examples.
(3)	Providing information useful for program planning and operation
	(a) Please rate effectiveness of Population Reports not effective moderately effective very effective
	(b) Have YOU used Population Reports in program planning and operation? yes no
	(c) If yes, please give specific examples.
(4)	Providing information and materials for research or reference
	(a) Please rate effectiveness of Population Reports not effective moderately effective very effective
	(b) Have YOU used information from Population Reports in reports, papers or presentations? yes no
	(c) If yes, please give specific examples.
(5)	Providing information and materials useful for training
	(a) Please rate effectiveness of Population Reports not effective moderately effective very effective
	(b) Have YOU used Population Reports for training or to help develop training? yes no
	(c) If yes, please give specific examples.
(6)	Introducing new project or program ideas
	(a) Please rate effectiveness of Population Reports not effective moderately effective very effective
	(b) Have YOU used Population Reports to develop new projects or programs? yes no
	(c) If yes, please give specific examples.

After you receive a copy of Population Reports, what do you do with it? (Check as MANY as you wish.)

      Read it
      File for future reference
      Put in loose-leaf binder
      Pass on to colleagues

Send to library
Throw away
Other

How many other people read your copy of Population Reports?

none 1-5 6-10 11-20 More than 20

Have you ever asked for back issues of Population Reports?

yes no

(a) If yes, did you receive them?
yes no

(b) How did you use them?

Which of the following recent issues of Population Reports did you find MOST useful?
LEAST useful? (Check as MANY as you wish.)

MOST	LEAST
		B-6	IUDs—An Update
		C-10	Voluntary Female Sterilization: Number One and Growing
		D-5	Vasectomy: New Opportunities
		J-41	Meeting the Needs of Young Adults
		J-42	Helping the News Media Cover Family Planning
		J-43	Meeting Unmet Need: New Strategies
		J-44	Family Planning Methods: New Guidance
		J-45	People Who Move: New Reproductive Health Focus
		J-46	Reproductive Health: New Perspectives on Men's Participation
		J-47	Family Planning Programs: Improving Quality
		J-48	New GATHER Guide to Counseling
		J-49	Why Family Planning Matters?
		K-4	Decisions for Norplant Programs
		K-5	New Era for Injectables
		L-9	Controlling Sexually Transmitted Diseases
		L-10	Care for Postabortion Complications: Saving Women's Lives
		M-10	The Environment and Population Growth
		M-11	The Reproductive Revolution: New Survey Findings
		M-12	Opportunities for Women Through Reproductive Choice
		M-13	Winning the Food Race
		M-14	Solutions for a Water-Short World


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