# Using quizzes and comments as a sources of data

One often opverlooked way of sourcing data is to ask your own audience. If you publish a story on a subject, why not include a quiz or take note of comments below the fold to create a new dataset? When News24 published [this piece investigating issues around average salaries for domestic workers](https://living-wage.news24.com/), for example, it also [asked its readers to share information](http://living-wage.news24.com/wageCalc.html) about how much they paid for household services. 

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While this particular survey required some additional coding, you could use [Google Forms](https://openup.gitbook.io/training-content/the-fundamentals-of-data-driven-storytelling/module-1-find/1.3-sourcing-your-own-data/creating-a-google-form-for-research) to create a simple question or two to guage reader opinion on a subject.