Broadly speaking, a survey is a process undertaken to collect some kind of information in order to reach certain conclusions about the subject matter being studied. For example, you may have a company undertaking a survey to measure customer satisfaction for their products or one trying to pre-test a new product they want to launch.
The good thing about taking part in these surveys is that your responses are aggregated with those of other responders and your identity is concealed. Okay maybe I should back track a bit.
First a company determines the need for a survey as I have explained above. Then they will commission a survey company to do the job. The survey company will be responsible for developing the questionnaires that would eventually be sent to respondents (you possibly). You are then asked to answer all questions as truthful as possible and send back the form to them once you are done.
In an online survey, you will often receive the questionnaire via email or you may receive and email asking you to log into your survey account in order to retrieve the questionnaire.
Each time you fill in one you get credited with a predetermined amount. So the more questionnaires you respond to the more money you make. Unfortunately you do not determine the number of questionnaires sent to you at a particular time as this is entirely up to the survey company. Why? You may ask. Well, it may be that certain surveys undertaken require people who are different from you e.g. who are within a certain age range or live in a certain place or earn a certain income.
I must let you know that not all online surveys are paid surveys. From time to time you will come across surveys that require you to take part in without getting paid for it. Answer their questionnaire from the goodness of your heart. These are usually government or NGO related but you will also find some from profit making companies requesting you to take part in their non-paid surveys.
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