Editing Respondent (section)

== Survey usage ==
In [[Survey (human research)|population survey]] and [[Questionnaire construction#Pretesting|questionnaire pretesting]], a respondent is a [[research participant]] replying with answers or feedback to a survey.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lavrakas |first=Paul |title=Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods |publisher=[[Sage Publishing]] |year=2008 |isbn=9781412918084 |editor-last=Lavrakas |editor-first=Paul |pages= |chapter=Respondent |doi=10.4135/9781412963947}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last1=Sha |first1=Mandy |last2=Pan |first2=Yuling |date=2013-12-01 |title=Adapting and Improving Methods to Manage Cognitive Pretesting of Multilingual Survey Instruments |url=https://www.surveypractice.org/article/2888 |journal=Survey Practice |language=en |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.29115/SP-2013-0024 |doi-access=free|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Depending on the survey questions and context, respondent answers may represent themselves as individuals, a household or organization of which they are a part, or as a proxy to another individual.