{
  "title": "Newsletter reader survey",
  "questions": [
    "Which recent issue helped you do something useful?",
    "What section do you usually skip?",
    "What question should the next issue answer?",
    "What action did a recent issue help you take?",
    "Which topic needs less background and more practical detail?"
  ],
  "question_notes": [
    "Locate a recent issue connected to a useful reader action. Investigate which explanation enabled that action without attributing a broader outcome solely to the newsletter.",
    "Find a section readers routinely bypass and explore whether its relevance, length or placement explains skipping. Nonreading alone does not establish that its information is unnecessary.",
    "Identify a current unanswered question for the next issue to address. Prioritize a concrete explanation rather than choose topics only by general expressions of interest.",
    "Check whether readers can name an action taken after a specific issue. Keep reported application separate from evidence that the newsletter caused the result.",
    "Locate a subject where introductory background no longer meets readers' needs. Add a focused practical example while preserving essential context for less experienced readers."
  ],
  "answer_guidance": [
    {
      "question": 1,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: which recent issue helped you do something useful.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 2,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: what section do you usually skip.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 3,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: what question should the next issue answer.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 4,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: what action did a recent issue help you take.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 5,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: which topic needs less background and more practical detail.",
      "optional": true
    }
  ],
  "respondent_instruction": "If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate.",
  "note": "Examples to adapt. Not a validated instrument."
}