As researchers, we sometimes find ourselves offering a prize draw as an incentive for respondents taking part in a survey.
There are very specific conditions around how a prize draw must be run – both from the MRS Code of Conduct point of view, and a legal point of view.
ICG member Sean Adams (The Seed Consulting) has very kindly shared some generic Terms & Conditions that he recently used for a prize draw – these need to be published and available for potential participants.
Another useful source is the MRS – here is some general information about incentives…
… I am currently trying to track down the regulations on ‘Administering Incentives and Free Prize Draws’ and will include a link once I have found them…