Survey Kit

Tech stack: Vite, AWS, Typescript

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Survey Kit was developed in response to the crisis in the UK's national survey infrastructure, where traditional, lengthy household surveys are experiencing plummeting response rates and threaten the validity of crucial economic and social statistics. For example, the decline of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) has forced policymakers to rely on less robust data sources, making accurate decision-making more difficult and urgent.

Key drivers of this decline are survey fatigue, inaccessible formats for younger and hard-to-reach populations, and the inadequate fit between traditional survey lengths and modern digital attention spans. Surveys that take 45–60 minutes are now out of sync with everyday user behavior, especially on mobile devices.

Survey Kit aims to address these problems by offering a mobile-first, bite-sized survey framework. It delivers a user experience similar to popular social apps rather than bureaucratic forms—one question per page, rapid navigation, accessible controls, and customizable UI. The goal is to reduce participant burden, improve retention, and gather higher quality data for research and policy.

The framework equips developers and survey authors with advanced features like emoji sliders, gamified progress tracking, and conversational logic, making it easy to build engaging surveys that fit modern consumption habits. It is designed for seamless integration and quick deployment while remaining accessible, open, and developer-friendly through JSON/YAML configuration and TypeScript support.

Survey Kit will be demonstrated via an AWS-hosted example and aims to serve respondents, researchers, and developers alike—raising response rates and data quality by lowering barriers to participation and fitting better into contemporary digital life.