Survey questions (annotated)

Introductory questions

Q2.1: What is the name of your organization?

Text field

Q2.2: Where is your organization’s headquarters?

Dropdown menu with country names from the World Bank.

Though dropdown menus are poor UI, adding an autocomplete field to Qualtrics is doable, but tricky and won’t always work consistently (e.g. if a respondent disables JavaScript, validating their response nearly impossible since they’ll have to type the name of the country in blindly—and perfectly—to make it match the validating regex).

Q2.3: What is your position in your organization?

Single answer

Executive director
Program officer
Public relations officer
Staff member
Receptionist
Other:

Q2.4: Does your organization work in a country other than home_country?

If the respondent answers no, skip to Q7.1 and end the survey early since they’re not an INGO

Single answer

Q2.5: Besides home_country, where does your organization work?

Checkboxes with multiple answers allowed; each country is an option

Horrible nasty UX here, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. There’s no good way to do this in Qualtrics

Organizational questions

Q3.1: Which issues does your organization focus on? (select all that apply)

Multiple answers allowed

Development
Human rights
Environment
Education
Disaster relief
Freedom of expression
Democracy assistance
Human trafficking
Other:

Q3.2: Which issue does your organization focus on the most? (select one)

Single answer

Development
Human rights
Environment
Education
Disaster relief
Freedom of expression
Democracy assistance
Human trafficking
Other:

Q3.3: Please indicate how often your organization engages in each of these types of activities:

Qualtrics side-by-side table

	Always	Most of the time	About half the time	Sometimes	Never	Don’t know	Not applicable	Please explain briefly
Providing direct aid and services	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	Text field
Engaging in research and public education	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	Text field
Mobilizing people (e.g. campaigns, public protests)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	Text field
Engaging in advocacy	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	Text field
Monitoring and assessing the effects of policies, international agreements, and commitments	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	Text field

Q3.4: Approximately how many full-time employees does your organization have?

Numeric text field

Q3.5: Approximately how many volunteers does your organization have?

Numeric text field

Q3.6: Does your organization collaborate with any of these organizations or institutions? (select all that apply)

Multiple answers allowed

Other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
International organizations (IGOs)
Governments
Corporations or businesses
Other:
Don’t know
We do not collaborate with other organizations or institutions

Q3.7: Please list a few of the organizations or institutions you partner with most often:

Text field

Q3.8: How much of your organization’s funding comes from each of these sources?

Qualtrics side-by-side table

	A great deal	A lot	A moderate amount	A little	None at all	Don’t know	Not applicable
Individual donations	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Corporate donations	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Foundation donations	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Grants from the government of the country in which your organization is headquartered	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Grants from the government of the country in which your organization works	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Other	•	•	•	•	•	•	•

Q3.9: In general, what would you say your organization is trying to accomplish?: Multiline text field
Q3.10: How is your organization’s mission, vision, and values reflected in these objectives?: Multiline text field
Q3.11: Have these objectives changed at all in the last 10 years? If so, how?: Multiline text field
Q3.12: What are the major obstacles, if any, to reaching your organization’s objectives?: Multiline text field
Q3.13: Are there any changes that you would like to see in your organization’s goals and strategies, now or in the future?: Multiline text field

Government relations

Enable “Loop and merge” for this block. Respondents can fill out this section as many times as they want for each of the countries they work in.

Qualtrics’ solution for complicated looping and merging is pretty kludgy. Respondents can repeat this block up to 5 times (regardless of how many countries they work in). The final question of this block, Q4.24, lets respondents either restart the block or continue to the next block.

In order to end the cycle of loops early, each question in this block needs to have display logic hiding itself if the respondent chooses to end the loop:

Display logic for every question in the looped block

It’s a mess, but it works.

General questions

Q4.1: I will now ask a series of questions about your organization’s relationship to the government of one of the countries you work in. Please select a country you would like to discuss:

Single answer

Options populated from the countries selected in Q2.5

Q4.2: How long has your organization worked in target_country?

Single answer

Less than 1 year
1–4 years
5–9 years
10 years or more
Don’t know

Q4.3: What does your organization do in target_country? (select all that apply)

Multiple answers allowed

Maintain a physical office staffed primarily by foreigners
Maintain a physical office staffed primarily by people from target_country
Provide funding to domestic NGOs
Partner with domestic NGOs
Don’t know

Q4.4: Is your organization registered with the national government in target_country?

Single answer

Yes
No
Don’t know

Contact with government

Q4.5: About how often does your organization have contact with government or party officials in target_country?

Single answer

Once a week
Once a month
Once a year
Once every 2+ years
Never
Don’t know
Other:

Q4.6: What kind of government officials does your organization have contact with? (select all that apply)

Multiple answers allowed

President or prime minister
Member of parliament
Head of a ministry
Ministry staff
Military
Police or internal security
Other:
We have no contact with government officials
Don’t know

Q4.7: What kind of government officials does your organization have contact with most often? (select one)

Single answer

President or prime minister
Member of parliament
Head of a ministry
Ministry staff
Military
Police or internal security
Other:
We have no contact with government officials
Don’t know

Q4.8: How often is your organization required to report to the government of target_country?

Single answer

Once a week
Once a month
Once a year
Once every few years
Never
Don’t know
Other:

Q4.9: Are members of the government or ruling party of target_country involved in your work?

Single answer

Yes
No
Don’t know

Q4.10: How is the government of target_country involved in your work?

Multiline text field

Relationship with government

Q4.11: How would you characterize your organization’s relationship with the government of target_country? Please note all survey responses will be kept strictly confidential.

Single answer

Extremely negative
Somewhat negative
Neither positive nor negative
Somewhat positive
Extremely positive
Don’t know
Prefer not to answer

Q4.12: Briefly describe your organization’s relationship with the government of target_country:

Multiline text field

NGO regulations and restrictions

Q4.13: How familiar is your organization with regulations for international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in target_country?

Single answer

Extremely familiar
Very familiar
Moderately familiar
Slightly familiar
Not familiar at all
Don’t know

Q4.14: How often do regulations for international NGOs in target_country change?

Single answer

Once a month
Once a year
Once every few years
Rarely
Never
Don’t know

Q4.15: How does your organization find out about changes to NGO regulations in target_country? (select all that apply)

Multiple answers allowed

Government officials
Other NGOs
Newspapers, television, and other media
The internet
Other:
Don’t know

Q4.16: How is your organization affected by the following types of legal regulations for international NGOs in target_country?

Matrix table

Types of legal barriers adapted from the 2012 Defending Civil Society Report

	A great deal	A lot	A moderate amount	A little	Not at all	Don’t know	Not applicable
Regulations regarding registration	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Regulations regarding operations	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Regulations regarding speech and advocacy	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Regulations regarding communication and cooperation	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Regulations regarding assembly	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Regulations regarding resources	•	•	•	•	•	•	•

Q4.16a: Please describe how your organization is affected by regulations regarding registration.

Multiline text field

Only display if corresponding response in Q4.16 is “A great deal”, “A lot”, “A moderate amount”, or “A little”

Q4.16b: Please describe how your organization is affected by regulations regarding operations.

Multiline text field

Only display if corresponding response in Q4.16 is “A great deal”, “A lot”, “A moderate amount”, or “A little”

Q4.16c: Please describe how your organization is affected by regulations regarding speech and advocacy.

Multiline text field

Only display if corresponding response in Q4.16 is “A great deal”, “A lot”, “A moderate amount”, or “A little”

Q4.16d: Please describe how your organization is affected by regulations regarding communication and cooperation.

Multiline text field

Only display if corresponding response in Q4.16 is “A great deal”, “A lot”, “A moderate amount”, or “A little”

Q4.16e: Please describe how your organization is affected by regulations regarding assembly.

Multiline text field

Only display if corresponding response in Q4.16 is “A great deal”, “A lot”, “A moderate amount”, or “A little”

Q4.16f: Please describe how your organization is affected by regulations regarding resources.

Multiline text field

Only display if corresponding response in Q4.16 is “A great deal”, “A lot”, “A moderate amount”, or “A little”

Q4.17: Overall, how is your organization’s work affected by government regulations in target_country?

Single answer

Not restricted at all
Slightly restricted
Moderately restricted
Very restricted
Extremely restricted
Don’t know

Q4.18: How do the local laws and regulations in target_country affect your organization’s ability to pursue its mission?

Multiline text field

Responses to regulations

Q4.19: Over the last 10 years, has your organization changed its mix of programming in target_country?

Single answer

Yes
No
Don’t know

Q4.20: How has your organization’s mix of programming changed in target_country?

Multiline text field

Display if Q4.19 is “Yes”

Q4.21: Has your organization done any of the following in response to changes in government regulations in target_country?

Matrix table

	Yes	No	Don’t know	Not applicable
We changed the sources of our funding	•	•	•	•
We changed which issues we work on	•	•	•	•
We changed how we communicate with the government	•	•	•	•
We changed how we communicate with our donors	•	•	•	•
We changed which locations we work in	•	•	•	•
We changed the location of our country office	•	•	•	•
We used more local staff and/or volunteers	•	•	•	•
We used more foreign staff and/or volunteers	•	•	•	•

Q4.21a: Please describe how your organization changed its funding sources. What regulation were you responding to?

Multiline text field