Survey tool

I wanted to conduct a survey in the net. Went through couple of sites offering online survey. The questionare can be customized and the website collects data. Found few shortcoming in those sites. As always, there were limited service for free option and one need to switch to paid service for sophisticated facilities. Also, the flexibility of the questionair was another concern.

I want to list out n number of factors to participants and ask them to arrange those as per the priority (importance and relevance of those factors). I found most of the sites fail to provide this kind of ordering. Hence I thought about preparing a flash based questionare.

The flow of the questionare will be :

• Accept gender and age of the participant. Upon clicking a big arrow, take these two input to the top of the screen. May be the size of these two input component reduced, but still adjustable by the user.
• Now display n number of blocks or rectangular slabs. Each slab represent a factor/item. User will be allowed to move around the slabs and order them top to bottom.
• When the mouse is moved over the slab, comments can be displayed on the slab.
• Upon arranging the slabs, user clicks the submit button. The gender, age and order of these slabs are taken as user input. A php or jsp page receive these data and deposit in a db table.
• Later we will come up with fancy ways to process these data and analyze.
  

The survey I am interested is to find the mind set of people in matrimonial field. It would be nice to know the trend now and may be few years down the line.

Some of the factors that come into my mind are (not in any order) :

1. Religion
2. Caste
3. Language
4. Job profile
5. Look
6. Horoscope
7. Location preference
8. Family background
9. Charactor of the person

I dont see any direct or immediate use by this exercise. However, it might give us an oppurtunity to interact with the mass.