| Title |
Description |
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| Agricultural Flood Damage Survey |
This is a comprehensive agricultural damage survey that can be used for estimating project benefits by determining with and without conditions. The survey covers historic flood experience, cropping patterns, effect of flooding on crops yield, crops damage, and production budgets. There are also questions to determine the effect of flooding on farm property. (revised 2007) |
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Agricultural Flood Damage Survey |
| Aquatic Plants, Recreation, and Lake Residents |
This survey focuses on a variety of water quality and related environmental problems and how these problems impact on recreation and quality of life issues. The seasonal affects of several environmental concerns that arise from aquatic plants and water quality issues are detailed in this survey. The survey helps determine the public perceptions of the primary causes and the responsibility for managing the problems. (revised 2007) |
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Aquatic Plants, Recreation, and Lake Residents |
| Beach Questionnaire |
Respondents are asked to describe and evaluate the quality of their beach activities at a particular site in comparison to other beaches. Expenditures are tracked to determine their economic impacts. Travel information can be used for travel costs evaluation. |
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Beach Questionnaire |
| Beach Recreation Visitor Survey |
Respondents are asked to describe and evaluate the quality of their beach activities at a particular site in comparison to other beaches. Expenditures are tracked to determine their economic impacts. Respondents are asked about their satisfaction with the beach experience based on the factors that they consider most important. |
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Beach Recreation Visitor Survey |
| Boat Survey |
This questionnaire is designed to provide information on recreational boat ownership, and also on whether or not boat owners would rent marina facilities that might be provided and operated by private businesses on Corps lakes. Questions provide the following types of information: boat use location, number of people going on a typical boating trip, past/future marina service rentals, number of boating trips and frequency of use by destination and unit of time, characteristics of boat(s) owned, boat registration number, types of purchases during a boating trip, age and occupation of the boat owner. (revised 2007) |
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Boat Survey |
| Business Flood Loss Survey |
The business flood loss survey contains questions on historical and hypothetical flood loss to buildings, transportation, utilities, equipment, and other fixtures. The survey also covers nonphysical flood costs, such as emergency expenses and income losses. (revised 2007) |
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Business Flood Loss Survey |
| Business Location Survey |
This survey can be used for determining location and intensification benefits and other benefits from future floodplain development. Questions are included on location factors that have and will influence location decisions, particularly the influence of flooding and flood protection on location, expansion, or cutbacks. (revised 2007) |
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Business Location Survey |
| Camper Customer Satisfaction Survey |
This survey can be used for gauging customer satisfaction with lake campgrounds. The questions included involve the group composition of respondents and the quality of their experience at the site. (revised 2007) |
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Camper Customer Satisfaction Survey |
| Campground Questionnaire |
The questions in this questionnaire are mainly designed for recreation operations investigations of camper behavior and preferences. Questions provide information on primary camping destination, distance traveled, numbers of camping trips and nights camped at Corps campgrounds, activities participated in while camping, importance of campground facilities/services/ amenities/location, type of camping group, type of camping equipment, perceived quality of campground facilities/services/amenities/experiences, satisfaction with campgrounds, importance of costs, and willingness to pay fees. Other questions provide the following types of demographic information for Corps campers: zip code, household size, gender, age, education, occupation, ethnicity, race, and household income. (revised 2007) |
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Campground Questionnaire |
| Carrier Closure Survey |
This survey is used to determine how a waterway carrier responds to lock closures and the impact of the closures on the carrier. |
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Carrier Closure Survey |
| Carrier Survey |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to collect information on inland waterway carriers and the commodities they carry. The categories of information collected include: carrier characteristics, baseline equipment information, types and amounts of commodities carried, equipment operating costs, employee types and wage rates, barge rates and costs for different commodities, types of problems experienced by carriers, economic impacts, and cost recovery. (revised 2007) |
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Carrier Survey |
| Channel Improvements for Commercial Fishing Survey |
These are questions related to the following kinds of information on commercial fishing: descriptive information on fishing vessels, information on vessel usage, species catch by trip and season and dock location, harvesting costs, vessel maintenance/repair costs, delays in harvesting caused by unfavorable channel conditions, prices paid for catch and proceeds from fishing trips, places where catch is sold, and potential price increases and decreases for catch. (revised 2007) |
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Channel Improvements for Commercial Fishing Survey |
| Charter Fishing Survey |
This survey ask for detailed information on the respondents operating fleet and equipment. There are questions on charter rates and number of fish by type of fish and on the number of trips by type of fish. Respondents are also asked about wave height and other potential problems with navigation through the channel entrance. (revised 2007) |
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Charter Fishing Survey |
| Coastal Storm Damage Questionnaire |
This survey asks about property characteristics to determine susceptibility to coastal flooding and erosion. The survey inquires about previous flood and erosion experience and how the respondent and the community have adjusted to these problems. (revised 2007) |
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Coastal Storm Damage Questionnaire |
| Commercial and Industrial Flood Damage Survey |
This survey facilities the inventory of major components of business property. It includes questions about hypothetical damages at various flood levels to each of the inventoried components. The survey also inquires about the extent of other costs of flooding at hypothetical levels of inundation. (revised 2007) |
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Commercial and Industrial Flood Damage Survey |
| Commercial Fishing Boat Survey |
This questionnaire is designed for interviewing fishing boat owners/operators. Types of information collected by this questionnaire include: descriptive characteristics of fishing vessel, crew size, where vessel is based and operated, working times at different ports and processing plants, number of days and fishing trips made by species/day/ month, vessel maintenance and repairs and problems due to harbor conditions, delays due to basin/channel/dock congestion, harbor facilities needed, effect of harbor improvements on trips needed to alternative ports or to leave port, types of nets/lines/other equipment used, fuel use per hour and travel time to fishing grounds, crew wages and share of catch, packing and processing costs per pound, species catch and price received, vessel repair and maintenance costs, alternative waterways used and distance traveled by comparison, and an "other" information question. (revised 2007) |
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Commercial Fishing Boat Survey |
| Corps of Engineers Recreation Use On-Site Survey |
This set of survey questions can be used as a guideline for employees stopping individuals to ask questions about their experience at recreational facilities. The document provides both directions for the interviewer for recording data collected as well as questions to be asked regarding satisfaction with the facilities. (revised 2007; formerly titled, "Corps of Engineers Traffic Stop Recreation Use Survey") |
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Corps of Engineers Recreation Use On-Site Survey |
| Customer Feedback Form |
This survey is a general compilation of customer satisfaction questions. It can be adapted for a variety of water resource settings to procure information about customer opinions. (revised 2007) |
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Customer Feedback Form |
| Customer Satisfaction - General |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to establish the level of customer familiarity with the corps; the level of customer satisfaction with corps construction, operations and maintenance, floodplain management, tribal issues, project management, permit regulations, the NEPA process, river basin studies, and corps effectiveness and efficiency. It also contains questions to determine what problems are encountered with the Corps and ways the Corps can improve relations with other (customer) agencies. (revised 2007) |
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Customer Satisfaction - General |
| Customer Satisfaction - Lake Visitation |
The main purpose of this questionnaire is to describe the recreational visits made to Corps lakes in terms of such characteristics as: number of visits, amount of time spent by visitors in all visits, type of recreational activity, type of boat used on the lake. It also contains questions to establish perceived problems and proposed corrective changes at Corps lakes. (revised 2007) |
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Customer Satisfaction - Lake Visitation |
| Customer Satisfaction - Permit Application |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to establish permit applicants' evaluation of the different aspects of the Corps permit application process, and by implication, their satisfaction with the process. This includes their ratings of the professionalism, timeliness, courtesy in correspondence and telephone conversations, Corps assistance in resolving objections and modifications or their denial, and the time needed to complete the process. Questions describing the permit applicant and his suggestions for improvements are also included. (revised 2007) |
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Customer Satisfaction - Permit Application |
| Customer Service Survey |
This questionnaire allows the customer to gauge their agreement on a variety of statements about the Corps of Engineers on a five point range. The topics covered include attitude of the Corps, products and services provided, quality of project management, timeliness of service, level of information provided, quality of communication, and general customer input. (revised 2007) |
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Customer Service Survey |
| Dock and Terminal Survey |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to collect information on the following aspects of docks and terminals: user information, location, site characteristics, loading and unloading equipment, storage facilities, commodity information, intermodal connections, employment and wages, rates and costs, user problems, and recommendations. (revised 2007) |
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Dock and Terminal Survey |
| Economic Impact of Recreation |
This questionnaire asks respondents to detail the extent of expenditures before a trip to a recreation area, while traveling, and during the stay at a Corps facility in order to determine the extent of economic impact and where the impact occurred. |
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Economic Impact of Recreation |
| Emergency Response Questionnaire |
Respondents are asked about their behavior when there is an emergency evacuation, whether they evacuated, what influenced their behavior, and the nature of warning and preparedness measures that were in place during the emergency. |
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Emergency Response Questionnaire |
| Environmental Quality Questionnaire |
This survey is intended to measure the awareness of environment quality concerns in around any particular river. The respondents are asked to rate various water quality concerns and identify the seriousness of each problem, how each problem personally affects them. The respondent is asked opinions about the most promising ways of dealing with the problem and what he or she considers the best way to relay information to the public. (revised 2007) |
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Environmental Quality Questionnaire |
| Ethnic Minority User Survey |
This survey is a resource for conducting a verbal survey to gauge the experience of minority recreation visitors to Corps of Engineers facilities. The document includes instructions for what the surveyor should say as well as questions related to outdoor recreation and recreation participation of the individuals being interviewed. (revised 2007) |
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Ethnic Minority User Survey |
| Facility Environmental Cleanup |
This survey is targeted at individuals who live in areas surrounding Corps of Engineers facilities. The questions cover a range of topics including problems with home and farm water supply due to facility influence. The questionnaire also includes both questions with a variety of response to choose from as well as subjective questions for the interviewer to gauge a full range of responses. (revised 2007) |
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Facility Environmental Cleanup |
| Habitat Needs Questionnaire |
Respondents are asked about the conditions that they believe are important in defining a desirable habitat and the qualities of their desired future habitat. They are asked to respond to a presentation on habitat conditions and about their opinion on the type of forum to best express their views on habitat conditions. |
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Habitat Needs Questionnaire |
| Hazardous Material and Waste Storage Survey |
This survey is to determine what material respondents have stored on their property that may be potentially hazardous. Respondents are asked about the source of water supply and waste treatment and disposal at the site. (revised 2007) |
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Hazardous Material and Waste Storage Survey |
| Hunter Profile |
This questionnaire provides a variety of questions to both categorize and better understand the profile of the hunters on Corps of Engineers facilities. The questions range from basic individual information to specific information regarding the individual's hunting preferences. The information gained about hunting preferences includes expenditure profiles as well as time and travel information. (revised 2007) |
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Hunter Profile |
| Institutional/Floodplain Management Questionnaire |
Respondents are asked to describe the size, jurisdiction, objectives, and capability of their organization or agency. Their opinions are sought on the advisability of and their possible role in implementing various flood damage reduction measures. |
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Institutional/Floodplain Management Questionnaire |
| Internet Reservation (PARK.NET) Service Survey |
This survey is used to gauge customer satisfaction with the customer service provided by the Park.net system following the placement of the initial reservation. The questions cover post reservation service as well as the campground check-in process. (revised 2007) |
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Internet Reservation (PARK.NET) Service Survey |
| Lake Boater Summer Survey |
This survey can be used to gather information about the profile of lake boaters over a wide variety of aspects. Questions cover basic visitor descriptions, past and present lake experiences, and individual lake preferences. (revised 2007) |
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Lake Boater Summer Survey |
| Lake Residents Recreation Survey |
The questions in this questionnaire are designed for interviewing people living near Corps projects. Questions provide information on number of household members or guests who recreate at the Corps project, the amount of time they do so, the activities they participate in there, their seasons of use, the adequacy of the number of outdoor recreation facilities at the project, perceptions of project-related problems, type of boat or watercraft ownership and storage, property location and boundaries with government property, special uses of property, Corps permits for particular facilities and activities, and mode of transportation to project lake. (revised 2007) |
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Lake Residents Recreation Survey |
| Lake Visit Expenditure Survey |
This survey can be used to document the profile of visitors trips to Corps of Engineers lakes and rivers. The survey can also be used to better understand travel and vacation expenses of individuals who use the Corps lakes and rivers for recreation. (revised 2007) |
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Lake Visit Expenditure Survey |
| Lake Visitor Survey |
This is survey probes lake visitors satisfaction with the boating conditions at any particular Corps lake. The survey inquires about the safety of boating conditions and whether there are any areas that are to be avoid because of hazards. Respondents are asked about noise and other problems that might detract from the enjoyment of their lake visit. Answers can be related to the respondents history of lake visits and the type of boat used on the lake. (revised 2007) |
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Lake Visitor Survey |
| Lock Closure Survey |
This survey is used to determine how a waterway shipper responds to lock closures and the impact of the closures on the shipper. |
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Lock Closure Survey |
| Marina Survey |
This questionnaire includes questions to better understand the customer satisfaction with various marina aspects. This questionnaire includes questions involving physical marina structure, water levels surrounding the marina, and methods for adapting to water levels. (revised 2007) |
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Marina Survey |
| Multi-Use Management of Large River Systems |
Respondents are asked about boating, fishing, and other outdoor activities that might be affected by the introduction and spread of non-native aquatic plants. (revised 2007) |
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Multi-Use Management of Large River Systems |
| Nonresidential Flood Damage Survey |
This survey is used to learn about the responding businesss recent flood experience and how the business has responded to the threat of flooding. Questions are included to determine the value of all contents, outside property, and the depreciated replacement value of the building. Respondents are asked to estimate the structure, content, and vehicle damage as well as emergency and cleanup costs for hypothetical flood levels. (revised 2007) |
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Nonresidential Flood Damage Survey |
| Public Damage Survey |
This is a short survey that asks about the extent of public damages and other public costs of flooding from a single event. Total public costs and hours of volunteer time for emergency operations are included. (revised 2007) |
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Public Damage Survey |
| Public Participation - Flood Damage Reduction Questionnaire |
Respondents are asked to indicate the seriousness of flooding and related problems to themselves and their community. People are asked to indicate how they may have been involved or intended be involved in issues related to flooding in a particular area. Flood victims are how flooding has affected their lives. Respondents are also asked to comment on how they feel about alternative management strategies to deal with the flooding problem. (revised 2007) |
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Public Participation - Flood Damage Reduction Questionnaire |
| Quarterly Customer Survey |
This quarterly survey can be used to monitor customer satisfaction with Corps products and services. Space for comments about questions and areas for improvement will allow the surveyor to understand a range of customer opinions. (revised 2007) |
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Quarterly Customer Survey |
| Recreation Activities |
This survey contains questions pertaining to a wide variety of recreation activities. Activities discussed include boating, fishing, hunting, and camping, as well as general recreational information. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Activities |
| Recreation Customer Satisfaction Survey |
The main purpose of this questionnaire is to collect data on recreation area visitors and their visitation history. Information needs addressed by this questionnaire are demographics of visitors, size of their group and length of stay in the recreation area, type of recreational activities participation, repeat visitation information, and information on substitute sites visited. It also includes ratings questions for customer service issues, recreation experiences possible at the area, satisfactions with facilities, activities and information provided, and suggestions for changes. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Customer Satisfaction Survey |
| Recreation Expenditure Survey |
This survey covers recreational equipment use and expenditure that can be utilized to better understand recreational users of Corps of Engineers facilities. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Expenditure Survey |
| Recreation Management |
This questionnaire covers a wide variety of recreation management issues. This issues include activity management, fiscal policy, law enforcement, and management problem areas, as well as proposed actions and the importance of management actions. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Management |
| Recreation Respondent Profile |
This survey can be used to better understand the general profile of recreational facilities users as well as their motivations and preferences for their vacation. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Respondent Profile |
| Recreation Sites |
This survey can be used to gain understanding of recreational visitors site use behavior by the end of their recreational stay. Questions cover current site-use, which contains questions regarding a specific trip; past site-use behavior, which contains questions about the respondent's historical patterns of site-use; and general site-use characteristics. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Sites |
| Recreation Value Questionnaire |
This questionnaire provides a willingness-to-pay question; with scenario and accompanying questions to document reasons for non-response, substitution effects on other recreation areas, and allocation of total willingness-to-pay among various components of the recreation area being valued. A set of demographic questions is also included at the end of this questionnaire. (revised 2007) |
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Recreation Value Questionnaire |
| Residential Contents Survey |
This survey is used to determine household content values and content to structure value ratios. Most of the survey is a comprehensive, room-by-room accounting of residential household contents. Major categories of residential contents typically found in each room are listed here. Respondents are asked to give either an estimated current cash (depreciated replacement) value or the total replacement cost and average age for each group of items so that the depreciated replacement value can be calculated. Household characteristics are asked to estimate the depreciated replacement value of the home. Demographic background questions are asked to aid developing estimation models of residential content values. (revised 2007) |
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Residential Contents Survey |
| Residential Flood Damage Questionnaire |
This is a thorough survey for estimating physical damage and other costs of flooding to residential property. Detailed household descriptions are used to estimate the depreciated replacement value of the structure. Structural damage and damages prevented are determined for various parts of the household structure. This survey is designed for post-flood evaluation and estimation of depth-damage functions. (revised 2007) |
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Residential Flood Damage Questionnaire |
| Residential Flood Warning Questionnaire |
The benefits and private costs of flood warning and preparedness activities can be estimated using this questionnaire. This survey can be used to determine how effective different flood warning methods and response activities are and how flood warning response might vary by demographic characteristics of the population. (revised 2007) |
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Residential Flood Warning Questionnaire |
| River Basin Boating Survey |
The main purpose of this questionnaire is to describe the boating trips taken to river basin project areas. Questions include whether or not the interviewee owns and uses a boat and, if so, the number of trips taken with that boat during each season of the year in the last 12 months to particular river basin project areas. Other questions ask the number of days, persons, and activities pertaining to a "typical trip." Other questions ask about the type(s) of access used to get onto a lake or river and about the amount of money spent on various types of purchases at the lake or river where the boat was used most often. The end of the questionnaire includes a series of questions on descriptive characteristics of the boat and its motor, including purchase information, and questions on rental or storage fees and insurance costs. (revised 2007) |
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River Basin Boating Survey |
| River Recreation Quality Survey |
The main purpose of this questionnaire is to assess the perceived quality of recreation on a river. There are eight sets of rating items in this questionnaire. The first set of rating items provides information on perceived importance of the river to the interviewee. The second set of items rates interviewee familiarity with different stretches of the river. The third set rates the perceived quality of the river and its importance to the economy of the region. The fourth set rates both quality and availability of outdoor recreation attributes. The fifth rates support for management actions to improve recreation quality. The sixth rates the river in comparison to other recreation areas in the region. The seventh rates the degree of benefit from the river perceived by the interviewee. The eight rates the degree of different types of negative impacts on river quality. (revised 2007) |
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River Recreation Quality Survey |
| River Transportation Choice and Needs Survey |
This questionnaire asks shippers to identify their primary commodities and means of shipping and the factors that affect their choice of shipping mode. They are asked how their decisions are affected by transportation rates, transit time, and reliability. |
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River Transportation Choice and Needs Survey |
| Shipper Interview Survey |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to collect the following kinds of information from inland waterway shippers: terminal user information (e.g. names of waterway shippers), commodities shipped, information on alternative transport modes for shipping different commodities, commodity origins and destinations, rates and costs for waterway use, and future changes or shifts in commodity shipping. (revised 2007) |
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Shipper Interview Survey |
| Shipper Survey |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to collect the following kinds of information from inland waterway shippers: names/addresses/locations/phone numbers of docks and terminals, names/addresses/phone numbers of shippers, name and job title of person interviewed, names of commodities shipped and received, weight/season/terminal/ transport mode for commodities shipped. Regulation of commodities shipped, and origin/destination/tonnage/rate for commodities shipped. (revised 2007) |
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Shipper Survey |
| Slip Renters Survey |
This survey can be used to better understand the profile of slip renters in a given marina area. Questions explore boat-owning status, the value of recreational boating, opinions and perceptions, and general background information. (revised 2007) |
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Slip Renters Survey |
| Small Boat Survey |
This questionnaire is divided into three sections: I) boat owning status, 2) value of protecting a small boat harbor, and, 3) background information. Questions on boat owning status provide descriptive information on boat characteristics, number of trips taken with the boat, number of times the boat was used, number of people using the boat, problems encountered at the project(s) where the boat was used, boat damages sustained at the project(s), types of boating activities participated in during the year, boat slip rentals and costs, and preferred location for berthing boat. Questions on the value of protecting a small boat harbor are on "willingness to pay" above present cost to rent a slip. Questions on background information include occupational status education, gender, marital status, and number of persons in the household. (revised 2007) |
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Small Boat Survey |
| Steamship Line Survey |
The purpose of this questionnaire is to collect information on deep draft navigation. Types of information include: ID information on deep draft shippers, characteristics of the existing vessel fleet, vessel operating practices and activity information, types of cargo carried to and from different ports, port channel/traffic/safety conditions, trade route information, vessel and port costs per cargo ton and per hour, dock and navigation problems, needed waterway improvements and their potential benefits. (revised 2007) |
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Steamship Line Survey |
| Telephone Reservation Service Survey |
This survey is used to gauge customer satisfaction of those customers who utilized the Park.net service. The questions asked gauge satisfaction of customer service, campground choices, meeting information needs, applicable fees and policies, and the confirmation of reservation, as well as general customer satisfaction. (revised 2007; formerly known as "Customer Satisfaction Telephone Reservation Survey") |
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Telephone Reservation Service Survey |
| Transportation Choice and Satisfaction Survey |
Shippers are asked about their current shipping patterns and the most important factors affecting their shipping decisions. These factors are analyzed in relation to the shippers characteristics. |
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Transportation Choice and Satisfaction Survey |
| Visit Comment Card |
This survey contains a list of items for a customer to rate the value of the park facilities. There is also space for the customer to write in comments about desired improvements and whether the experience met their expectations. (revised 2007) |
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Visit Comment Card |
| Visitor Center Entrance Survey |
This questionnaire is used to understand the profile of visitors entering recreational facilities. Questions cover general information as well as knowledge of the Corps of Engineers and their mission. (revised 2007) |
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Visitor Center Entrance Survey |
| Visitor Center Exit Survey |
This questionnaire can be used to better understand the knowledge and information gained by visitors exiting visitor centers. Questions cover the recreation facilities, knowledge of the Corps of Engineers, and satisfaction with interpretive programs and field trips. (revised 2007) |
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Visitor Center Exit Survey |
| Water Conservation |
This survey allows the researcher to determine the acceptability of various measures in the household and community to conserve water. The questionnaire identifies household characteristics that might influence water use and conservation. Results of the survey can be used to evaluate how effective alternative water conservation might be particularly based on the composition of the population. (revised 2007) |
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Water Conservation |
| Water Level Impacts on Recreation Use |
Using various water release scenarios, the survey measures the public view of how water level changes would affect the quality of recreational boating and recreational boating decisions. (revised 2007) |
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Water Level Impacts on Recreation Use |
| Water Quality Problems |
This survey addresses customer reaction to seasonal water quality variation as well as the affect of water quality on various recreational activities. (revised 2007) |
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Water Quality Problems |
| Watershed Questionnaire |
Responds are asked to share their views on their most important watershed concerns, about indicators of watershed quality, about watershed organizational activities, and about direct effects of watershed conditions to their families. |
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Watershed Questionnaire |
