Hello and apologies if this doesn’t fit the No Stupid Questions community exactly… I’m working on a research project in the UK, around food bank usage, and wondered if anyone who uses a food bank would be prepared to answer a few questions…

  1. Are you able to get enough food, toiletries, items from your local food bank?
  2. Do you have any allergies or illness that makes it harder to use a food bank? ie. they never have any gluten free bread, or everything contains too much sugar
  3. Do you care about branded foods versus non branded?
  4. Are there items you can never find or are in very short supply at your local food bank?
  5. How were you referred to the food bank?

The research project we are working on is looking into all aspects of food banks from someone deciding to donate, to storing the donations, to people receiving them, and seeing if there is some way to improve what is being donated and/or the quantities.

Any help answering these questions would be really helpful 🙂

  • @cman6OP
    11•1 year ago

    Hello!

    What kind of researcher posts a five-question-questionnaire on Lemmy?

    I’m not a professional researcher or anything, just someone looking to do research in this area. I thought there might be people on Lemmy who wanted to share their story or experiences.

    Who are you and who employs you? What is your agenda?

    I am cman6. I’m not comfortable disclosing person information about my employer. I stated my agenda… “The research project we are working on is looking into all aspects of food banks from someone deciding to donate, to storing the donations, to people receiving them, and seeing if there is some way to improve what is being donated and/or the quantities.”

    Is this an undergraduate thesis?

    Nope

    Where else did you post your questionnaire? Are you accounting for selection bias?

    This is the only place I’ve posted it so far. I’m not concerned about selection bias to be honest, although I am aware of it. I’m just looking for anecdotal information.

    Why do you not use a questionnaire service like survey monkey?

    I just thought this would be faster. Plus I wanted to keep things informal.

    These are all yes/no questions and no questions regarding background, sex, age, income, etc. What kind of conclusions do you think you will be able to draw from that?

    Well I don’t have any experience going to a food bank so I was hoping to gather a general idea of what that might be like.

    Cheers!

    • @[email protected]
      16•1 year ago

      You’d be much better off going to one of your local food banks, speaking to the volunteers there and seeing if they’d be prepared to facilitate introductions to some of their users, if they think you smell right.

      If you do so, pay for their time. A proper pay for their time, not some token gesture. It’s not a fucking game.