Welcome to Surveys

Observations/Surveys is a composite Building Block through which users can observe an institution, an individual or themselves to collect valuable data and insights.

Overview

​ This microsite contains detailed documentation that helps organizations understand the Observations/Surveys building block.

Introduction

Institutions or organizations across various sectors frequently confront substantial challenges in the collection of large-scale data. Whether in the education sector, healthcare sector, or other domains, leaders have the responsibility of gathering data to gain insights into areas that require improvement. This data-driven approach facilitates informed decision-making.

The primary obstacle lies in acquiring authentic and comprehensive data that accurately represents the status of each entity within the given sector. Establishing context and collating evidentiary proof is nearly impossible. This gap needs to be addressed to gather authentic and genuine data that gives visibility at different levels.

The Surveys capability address this challenge and provide a solution that revolutionizes data collection. The capability is NDEAR compliant and offer an innovative solution to the problem of collecting data from a large number of people. Using these advanced technological capabilities, various organizations, government agencies, and institutions can now gather information and feedback on a much larger scale and at regular frequencies.

About Surveys

Surveys serve as a means to gather feedback and opinion from respondents. These surveys can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of various aspects like services, training needs, and feedback. Typically, surveys are time-bound and accessible only once for respondents to complete. Using this capability, leaders and professionals across different sectors can easily participate in surveys customized to their specific roles and responsibilities.

With the ability to have a contextual set of questionnaires, surveys become relevant for all sectors in the data collection process. It will help gather data with speed and at scale.

This building block includes a microservice, reference solution, and data analytics. The service is developed in compliance with NDEAR principles. The services are generic, configurable, scalable, and interoperable.

If Surveys is being hosted as a standalone capability and not as part of an existing platform, you can leverage the following services:

• Notification
• User Management
• Scheduler
• Entity Management

Use Cases

Sector	Examples
Healthcare	Assess the quality standards of all government and private hospitals. Record the needs and requirements of all healthcare professionals
Agriculture	Evaluate sustainable farming practices in agricultural farms. Gather feedback and opinion from farmers on their training sessions.
Education	Create school health card on different parameters. Gather information on topics for professional development sessions from school leaders.
Skilling	Capture insights from all skilling centers on the effectiveness of their training programs.
Hospitality	Assess all hotels and restaurants on hygiene and safety standards. Gather feedback from the public on different parameters with respect to the hotels and restaurants.