Background & Demographic Questions

This section collects background and demographic information to understand participants' experiences and ensure diverse representation.

Background and Demographic Questions 

These questions are included only when the organization administrator opts to gather this information.

  • Background questions may be used to remove unqualified respondents. To enable this analysis option, enable the question or questions that would help identify unqualified respondents.
  • Demographics are most often used for reporting purposes. Enable the required questions to collect these data. You should enable the “Demographics explanation” if you enable any of the demographics questions and the explanation should be consistent with your planned use of these data.
  • To streamline your experience, these background and demographics questions can only be enabled or disabled, not edited. The “Demographics explanation” can be edited.  

Background Questions 
Nature of job/role experience [Multiple Choice Single Selection] 
•    I’m working in this position now. 
•    I’ve worked in this position in the past. 
•    I’m training to work in this position. 
•    I’m a direct manager of this position (they report directly to me). 
•    I manage people who manage this position (they report directly to me). 
•    Other, I have considerable knowledge about this position. 


Length of experience with job/role [Multiple Choice Single Selection] 
•    Less than 3 months 
•    3 – 5 months 
•    6 – 11 months 
•    1 – 2 years 
•    3 – 4 years 
•    5 or more years 
•    None. I have no experience with this position 

Job Title [Free Response] 
(Please use a generic title that will be clear to the general public) 

Country [pick list] 

Education [Multiple Choice Single Selection] 
•    Less than High School 
•    High School Graduate 
•    Some College 
•    Associate’s Degree 
•    Vocational School Degree/Certificate 
•    Bachelor’s Degree 
•    Master’s Degree 
•    Professional Degree (e.g. DDS, JD, MD) 
•    Doctorate Degree (e.g. Ph.D.) 
•    I prefer not to answer. 

Demographic Questions 

Demographics explanation [information] 
Demographics. The following questions ask about your identification with various demographic groups. We are required to document the aggregate diversity of the demographics of survey respondents. Responses to these items will be reported in aggregate and will not otherwise affect the results. 

Gender [Multiple Choice Single Selection] 
•    Man 
•    Woman 
•    Non-binary 
•    Other 
•    I prefer not to answer 

Age [Free response] 
I am
•    I prefer not to answer 
•    [Numeric response] 
 
Ethnicity [Multiple Choice Single Selection] 
•    African American or Black 
•    Asian 
•    Hispanic or Latino 
•    Middle Eastern or North African 
•    Native American or Alaska Native 
•    Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 
•    White or Caucasian 
•    I identify as two or more of these categories 
•    Other (none of the above) 
•    I prefer not to answer 


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