Presenting Research – Questionnaire

Dan and Henry

Purpose of ResearchWhy Conduct Research?The research was conducted to try and find out who is vegetarian, what specific food people like, what age on average people are that did our survey and what people think about vegetarianism.What Did You Want To Get Out of it?We needed this information so that we could find out who our audience were. If we knew who they were and what they wanted, we could make our recipe cards to fit them. For example, we asked a question in our survey saying ‘what is your favourite vegetarian dish?’, and we found that most people like pasta over everything else. We then know that we will most likely do a recipe for a vegetarian spaghetti meal of some kind.How Could This Influence Your Project?The questionnaire helped us in our project by giving us information to help us find out who our target audience was and what our audience prefer. This would then help us make our project (recipe cards) by knowing what they wanted and the way we would go about making it to fit the age and gender of our audience. For example, the gender of our survey users were pretty much 50/50 which meant that our recipe card would have to be made to look mixed gender. The age of our survey users were mostly between the ages of 16 and 19, which means that we will make the recipes look like they are for and older audience more than a younger audience. Adults and young adults are our target audience.

How You Conduct Research• We carried out the research by using a free website called survey monkey. On survey monkey you can

create a survey for free consisting of 10 questions. You are also limited to the amount of people that can actually fill it out. With this in mind we will still get plenty of results for what is required. First we thought up the questions and then we put them into the site to create the questionnaire. We asked our parents to fill them out and then asked them to ask people they know to fill it out. This gave us more varied results because they were adults and they will have filled it out in more of an adult manor than someone who is 17.

• Both Dan and I went on Facebook and messaged all the people we knew that we thought would respond. Doing this had quite a good outcome in terms of getting results because Dan and I could both message different people getting some varied results. We also posted it on a vegetarian blog site hoping to gather more information but I’m not sure how effective this actually was. The blog site may not have been that popular so we may not have got anything from there. We also went out and asked people if they would fill out the questionnaire. We both went out at the same time and each of us asked people we know. This was a good way of getting results because it was a lot easier to persuade our friends to fill it out in person than it was to get them to fill it out online.

• We found the people by targeting people we know and sending them links or sending them a message asking politely if they could fill it out when they next have time. On the first day we got about 40 different recipients who filled out the questionnaire and that’s not including the 20 we got in person. Over the next week after that we got about 20 more on the site making our current over all amount of people that filled it out 80.

Summary of Data

• Our survey was answered mostly by people between the ages of 16 and 19.

• 47.5% were Female and 50.8% were Male. The rest were most likely people who were messing about and clicked the ‘other’ box.

• Only about 20 people out of the 81 people who did our survey were genuinely vegetarians.

• The most favourite vegetarian dish was pasta.• The majority of the people who did our survey ate none to two

vegetarian meals per week.• 85% of people preferred homemade food.• 35% of people who weren’t vegetarian would in fact actually try

being vegetarian mostly because it is seen as being healthier.

Question 6How Often Do You Eat Vegetarian

Meals Per Week?

1 - 2 Meals Per WeekSome Meals Per WeekMost Meals Per WeekAll Meals Per WeekNever

The sixth question was ‘How often do you eat vegetarian meals per week’Our survey shows that the majority of people never eat a vegetarian meal, but also, a lot of people eat one to two vegetarian meals per week.This means that most of the people that did our survey are not vegetarians.In our project, we are actually wanting to aim everything at the people that do have vegetarian meals, even if it is only one or two a week. Our survey shows that most people do actually have at least one vegetarian meal a week which is good.In conclusion, we have found that people do in fact eat vegetarian meals even though they are not vegetarians.In our survey we did good at making it easy for everyone to tick one box. We could have made it more specific and for example, put specifically how many meals like ‘1-10’, but we thought this would be quite hard to figure out if you are a person that sometimes has a vegetarian meal, but for someone who is a vegetarian it would be obviously every meal. Even then you have to think about how meals you have per week and in survey it should be easy quick answers you know off the top of your head without thinking.

Question 7What do you prefer?

Homemade MealsBought Meals

For question 7 we asked ‘What do you prefer?’ ‘homemade meals’ or ‘bought meals’.In our survey we found that most people prefer homemade meals. 51 people prefer homemade meals and 12 people prefer bought meals.This will influence the way that the food will be made. So, we know that the recipes would have to made from scratch with all homemade things, for example, if we were making a lasagne we would not just take it straight out of a box to then just go straight into cooking. It would be made from scratch.We know also have a target audience to look at too, and this is clearly homemade meals.In conclusion, we have found that most people prefer homemade meals.For the people doing the survey, it was easy for the people to answer this question, it was either one or the other, and to me, there is nothing we could have done to make it easier for them.

Question 8

Is anyone in your family vegetarian

YesNo

For question 8 we asked ‘is anyone in your family vegetarian?’ In our survey we found that 24.6% said yes and 77% said no. From these results I have learnt that there is at least one person in every four families to be a vegetarian out of the people that I surveyed. I have also learnt that there might also be more than one vegetarian in these families. Usually, if there is a member of a family that is vegetarian, there is going to be a high chance that somebody else in that family is too. This is can be because of many different reasons, persuasion, the annoyingness of making two kinds of different meals each day for the family etc.In conclusion, we have found that there is more families without a vegetarian, than having a vegetarian. This information has not influenced our work by a great deal in all honesty.I think that we could have possibly done this question differently by maybe adding a little side question saying ‘who?’. This means that people would have added who was a vegetarian in their family, and then we could have seen what generation was more vegetarian than others.

Question 9

Would you contemplate veg-etarianism?

YesNo

For Question 9 we asked ‘would you contemplate vegetarianism?’In our survey we found that 65% of people said they wouldn’t and 35% of people said they would.We then also had an add on question asking ‘why?’. The majority of the people who answered saying yes put ‘because it is more healthier’ or something along them lines, and the majority of the people who answered no put something similar to ‘I like meat too much’.From this question we have learnt that in actual fact, a lot of people would actually contemplate vegetarianism because they think it is a lot more healthy.In conclusion, we have found that a lot of people don’t actually mind vegetarian food.I also think that this question was quite helpful in our work because we were able to find out if people would actually contemplate it. The way we got our results was good, because we asked a yes or no question, and then asked why, which also could be answered simply.

Question 10In question 10 we asked ‘overall, what do you think of vegetarianism?’In our survey we found that there were many many mixed answers, and it would have been too hard to put into a chart.What I did find is that the majority of the answers were positive towards vegetarianism. You would get the odd one that would literally just say ‘pointless’ as you can see on the left, but most of them were people saying that it is pretty much personal choice, but they applaud the people who are vegetarians. In conclusion, I have found that many people see it as being a very hard thing to do and the people who are actually able to be vegetarians are respected by others.I think that in this question, you were able to learn many different things by peoples different opinions. I do think that the question could have possibly been done differently due to not been able to separate the different answers into different answers. We could have had set answers saying something ‘good thing’ and ‘bad thing’, which we then could have got a set percentage on what people think.

EvaluationIn my survey I think that me and Henry did okay at finding out useful information about vegetarians and

others views on vegetarianism. There were many different things that we can now take in to account from what we have found out, for example, one of our questions were ‘how old are you?’ and we found that the majority of the people who did our survey were between the ages of 16 and 19. we also asked ‘are you a vegetarian?’ and all together out of the 61 people who did our survey, there were only 7 people who were vegetarians. So from this information, we have found out that people between 16 and 19 do not really tend to be a vegetarian. We found that the reason behind the majority of the people were between the ages of 16 and 19 were because they were all people we had asked on our facebook. I knew that this would be the case before we even looked at the survey results, and so I asked my mum to put it on her facebook to get some of her age range. The people that were older also seemed to answer the questions more maturely too.

In our survey, we could have probably have improved the way that some questions were set out. For example, on the question where we asked how old are you, we set it out so that you could just write in your age. Instead, we should have made boxes that you were able to tick like 15-20, 20-25. that way we would have been able to gather information easier and not have people typing in random stupid things in like ‘none of your damn business’. There was also a little glitch in our survey that we didn’t know about, and that was that for some reason you were able to tick more than one box on the box questions, and so, we had some people just ticking all the boxes which messed up with our results when trying to filter them.