This document presents the results of GAO's survey of FAA safety inspectors. The purpose of the survey was to gather information about the technical training available to them. We developed a Web-based questionnaire to obtain this information. We drew a stratified random probability sample of 496 inspectors from the population of 2,989 aviation safety inspectors. We received 392 responses, a 79-percent response rate. All estimates have been weighted to the population of aviation safety inspectors. The percentage estimates for all survey respondents have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Where the confidence intervals exceeded plus or minus 4.6 percentage points, we provide confidence intervals rather than point estimates. For questions in which we requested a count of courses, we provide confidence intervals for the estimated averages at the 95 percent confidence level. A more detailed discussion of our scope and methodology and a discussion of the summary of selected survey results are contained in our report entitled "Aviation Safety: FAA Management Practices for Technical Training Mostly Effective; Further Actions Could Enhance Results." GAO-05-728. We conducted our survey work from December 2004 through February 2005 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.

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Instructions for Viewing This Survey

How to View the Surveys

• Click on the Table of Contents link located in the lower right of this screen. To read to the bottom of the screen, you may need to use your scroll bar on the right side of this screen.
• The first screen in the survey is an introduction and general information that was sent to and viewed by recipients of the survey. There are no survey results to view on this screen. This screen is for information only, and you may by-pass it by clicking on Next located at the bottom of the screen in the lower right.
• The survey may have links to allow respondents to bypass inapplicable questions (skip patterns). While these were active links during the data collection period, they have now been disabled.

How to View the Responses for Each Question

• To view the responses to each question, click on the question number (Links to survey questions will look like this: 1., etc.).
• After viewing the responses to each question, click on the "x" in the upper right corner of your screen to close that window and return to the questionnaire.
• We do not include responses for all survey questions. For example, we do not report responses for demographic or open-ended questions. In addition, because approximately one-quarter of the respondents did not answer questions 9, 20, and 25d, these results are not included.

How to Return to a Page That You Previously Visited

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• Click the Next button to advance to the next screen.

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