Online citizen surveys and resident surveys are often conducted as part of local development programmes. Interested citizens are actively invited to participate in developing or updating plans through an online survey. Citizen surveys may focus on specific topics such as transport development and mobility plans, quality of life, construction and housing, digitalisation, or environmental, climate and education issues. Public health reporting questionnaires are also used to monitor population health. They capture the population’s health status and living conditions as well as sociodemographic characteristics and determinants of health.
When an overarching local strategy is being developed, for example as part of a future development plan, more comprehensive online questionnaires are generally used to cover all the categories mentioned above. They examine the conditions and structures of the local authority, municipality or city (including independent cities), as well as residents’ subjective perceptions of the region’s strengths and weaknesses.
LamaPoll enables you to conduct online citizen surveys securely and in compliance with the GDPR. Use our questionnaire templates on mobility and district development planning, or draw inspiration from our templates for online polls and needs assessments. You can copy every sample questionnaire to your LamaPoll account and customise it as required. More online survey templates are available here: Questionnaire templates.
Questionnaire templates for online citizen surveys
Uses and objectives of citizen surveys
Alongside public dialogue events, online citizen surveys are a highly visible form of public participation. They receive a positive response from residents and are increasingly used in participatory processes. Taking citizens’ views and wishes into account when designing development plans and programmes also helps ensure that measures are widely accepted when implemented.
Citizen surveys can initiate and support local development processes, guide the resulting measures and evaluate their success. Typical applications include urban planning, municipal development and village renewal. Involving citizens makes it possible to gauge public opinion, identify problems, determine the measures required and assess outcomes. Citizen surveys also strengthen residents’ identification with their local community.
Online citizen surveys – benefits at a glance:
You can find more questionnaire templates for citizen surveys, opinion polls, employee surveys and customer surveys on our templates page: Questionnaire templates and examples.
With LamaPoll, surveys can be created quickly and easily. The tool offers many options for individual adjustments. The help pages are useful for solving many questions independently. For special requests, competent and easily accessible customer support is available.
What is LamaPoll?
LamaPoll is a survey tool for creating employee surveys and employee satisfaction surveys online. You can use it to create, conduct and analyse every type of employee survey. Create your employee survey in just a few steps, customise it to match your organisation’s corporate design, and invite employees conveniently by email or through your intranet. You can quickly gather insights that help improve employee satisfaction. Register for LamaPoll free of charge and immediately conduct surveys or questionnaires for up to 50 employees with no obligation. If you need more responses for your online employee survey questionnaire, simply choose one of our monthly plans. You can also use our employee survey questionnaire templates and examples.
