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Questionnaire for initial research

 Questions, which I am planning to include in questionnaire, are provided in this blog post.

Questions:

       Demographic part:

  1. What is your gender? (A: Male; B: Female; C: Prefer not to say)
  2. What is your age? (A: under 18; B: 18-30; C: over 30)
  3. What course are you going to study at DMU?
  4. What part of the world you have come from? (A: Europe; B: Asia; C: Africa; D: Middle east; E: Other)
        Main part:
  1. Do you often use same passwords on different services? (A: I have 1 passwords for all services; B: Sometimes I use same passwords in multiple services; C: I try to avoid same passwords, but sometimes I use them; D: I have different passwords for all services) 
  2. What length do your passwords usually have? (A: 8 characters; B: Between 8 and 14 characters; C: More than 14 characters)
  3. How complicated your passwords usually are? (A: Capital letters, small letters, numbers and symbols combined; B: Capital letters, small letters and numbers; C: Capital and small letters; D: Only small letters)
  4. Do you use social networks? (A: Yes; B: No)
  5. Do you change your passwords (A: Never; B: only when necessary (i.e. when forgot); C: I do, but less than once a year; D: More than once a year; C: More than once a month)
  6. Have you ever had any of your accounts on the internet stolen (A: Yes; B: No)
  7. Have you ever used password managers (A: yes; B: no)
  8. Do you tend to use two/three step verifications? For instance connecting your email address to your mobile phone number (A: Often; B: Rarely; C: Try to avoid)
  9. If you answer "try to avoid" on the previous question, what is the reason for this? (A: Afraid of revealing personal information, such as mobile number; B: It takes longer time to log in with two/three step authentication; C: other; D: I did not answer previous question that way)
  10. If you try to avoid password managers, what is the reason for this?


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