Readership Survey

SCN News Requests Your Assistance

If you are reading this, the SCN News kindly requests that you take a few moments of your time to complete and return the readership survey below. SCN News is distributed free to a wide range of nutrition, health, educational and agricultural professionals around the world. In order to provide information to our donors, and to better meet the needs of our subscribers, we thank you in advance for your answers to the following questions, which will be an invaluable contribution to our efforts.

1. How long have you been reading issues of the SCN News?
	less than 1 year	1-3 years	4-6 years	more than 6 years
2. Do you share your copy of SCN News with others?			YES	NO

	2a. If yes, to how many persons do you pass your copy? _____________________
3. Which of the following sections of SCN News do you read?
		fully read	partly read	glance at	don't read
	Features
	News & Views
	Programme News
	Publications
	Bulletin Board

4. How interesting do you find SCN News?
		Very interesting	interesting	somewhat interesting	undecided	not interesting
	Features
	News & Views
	Programme News
	Publications
	Bulletin Board
	Overall issue

5. Are the contents and style of SCN News suitable to you?
		Too long	too short	too technical	not technical enough
	Features
	News & Views
	Programme News
	Publications
	Bulletin Board
	Overall issue

6. In which area(s) do you work? (tick as many as applicable)
nutrition	health	agriculture	education
other	_____________________________________

7. Do you use/have you used SCN News...
		YES	NO
	to find out more about the UN agencies' programmes
	for advocacy purposes to more senior advisors, funders, etc.
	as a source of material for promoting nutritional and related concerns
	as a source of technical information for teaching purposes
	as a source of technical information to guide your own or your associates' research, programme design, and/or financing
	for your own personal interest
8. Have you ever visited the SCN Website http://www.unsystem.org/accscn/

9. In which type of organization do you work?
	UN agency	governmental	NGO	university	private company
	other _____________________________________________________________

10. What is your primary job/position?
	advisor	consultant	director	dietitian	editor
	epidemiologist	extension worker	lecturer	manager
	medical doctor	nutritionist	professor	project/field/programme/technical officer
	researcher	student		supervisor
	other __________________________________

11. Are you	female	male
12. List any feature topics you would like SCN News to cover.

COMMENTS (Please attach any additional comments you feel are relevant to the SCN News and our readership.)

END OF SURVEY. Many thanks for taking the time to complete and mail this survey. Please mail it now to UN ACC/SCN, Attention: Readership Survey, c/o WHO, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

NOTE: This survey may also be completed on our website and emailed to us. http://www.unsystem.org/accscn

[Survey adapted from Victoria Elliot's 1994 Readership Survey of SCN News.]