AFI38-501_USAFASUP governs the approval, administration, oversight, and control of official Air Force and USAFA surveys.
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It covers attitude and opinion surveys, polls, questionnaires, interviews, survey exemptions, and Survey Control Numbers. It requires protected individual responses, review and approval of surveys, and retention and disposition of related records.
Applies to: This supplement applies to all Air Force military and civilian personnel (includes US Air Force Reserve (AFRC), Air National Guard (ANG) units, and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) members) at USAFA.
The program’s objective is to assess the attitudes, opinions, and intentions of Air Force military and civilian members, their families, and retired members, using questionnaires, polls, and interviews.
The USAFA survey program is structured to ensure individual responses are protected and that no adverse actions result from responses to an official USAFA survey.
Issues Survey Control Number (SCN) for approved survey requests submitted by Air Force organizations, contracted individuals, or organizations.
After the USAFA Survey Control Program reviews the request, these particular surveys will normally be granted an exemption from the local USAFA Survey Control Program requirements, as long as the subject matter is not a politically charged, nationally sensitive, or high-profile topic.
Surveys administered solely within a classroom or multiple sections of a common course by instructors or cadets within the classrooms for the purpose of demonstrating course-related concepts or course related opinions to enhance academic learning.