Survey template: Citizen survey about community events and festivals

Want to get richer, more honest community feedback on local events? Try our AI survey template designed for citizens—Specific makes it effortless and insightful from the very first conversation.

What is a conversational survey and why AI makes it better for citizens

Creating effective citizen surveys about community events and festivals can feel overwhelming. Traditional survey methods often produce static, one-size-fits-all questionnaires that citizens abandon halfway through. That's where an AI survey template shifts the entire experience.

Conversational surveys don’t just ask questions; they spark a chat that feels human. Instead of filling out a form, people answer naturally—in their own words—while the AI gently guides them. This approach keeps citizens engaged and supported throughout, which dramatically boosts completion rates. In fact, AI-powered surveys see completion rates of 70-80%, compared to only 45-50% for traditional ones[1]. Respondents stick around because it feels personal, not like another form.

Most people creating community feedback surveys worry about getting actionable insights instead of vague replies or drop-offs. Manual survey creation involves endless copy-pasting, tweaking, and follow-up emails to clarify responses. With an AI survey generator, you skip the grunt work. The AI builds expertly-structured questions, tailors them to your goals, and adapts on the fly—no survey fatigue, no confusion.

Why use AI for citizen surveys?

• Simple, adaptive experience: Questions adapt to real answers, not generic guesses

• Higher response quality: Respondents share more when surveyed in a conversational way

• Actionable insights: Data is more complete, context-rich, and instant to analyze

With Specific, you get the best-in-class conversational surveys—making feedback collection for community events and festivals easy for both you and every citizen who responds.

If you want to get into the details about writing the best questions for your next initiative, check out best questions for citizen survey about community events and festivals.

Automatic follow-up questions based on previous reply

The real magic of Specific comes from AI-powered follow-ups. Instead of leaving a vague answer as-is, the AI interviews the respondent naturally—just like a skilled moderator would. It asks for clarification, examples, or details based on what a citizen just shared. Gathering the full context becomes automatic and effortless, with every exchange staying relevant to the citizen’s actual experience at a recent event or festival.

Automated follow-ups not only save you the headache of sifting through unclear responses—they also save time you’d normally burn chasing after context via email or manual calls. Here’s a quick look at what this means in practice:

• Citizen: "The music was fun, but I didn’t stay long."

• AI follow-up: "Can you tell me what prompted you to leave early? Was it something specific about the event or the atmosphere?"

• Citizen: "The parking was a hassle."

• AI follow-up: "Could you describe what made the parking difficult? Was it the location, lack of signs, or something else?"

If you skip follow-up questions, you might end up with answers that leave you guessing, like "food felt off." You miss the chance to uncover whether it was the quality, pricing, options, or something else entirely.

Want to experience the difference? Generate a survey and see how these automatic follow-ups capture depth you’d never get from a regular form. For more on how it works in Specific, visit automatic AI follow-up questions.

These AI-driven followups turn every survey into a smooth, engaging conversation, making it a true conversational survey.

Easy editing, like magic

Editing your survey template shouldn’t feel like wrangling a spreadsheet or remembering every question logic. With Specific’s AI survey editor, you tweak, add, or remove questions simply by chatting in plain language. Tell the AI what you want changed or improved—it takes care of structure, flow, and technical setup at expert level. No forms, no clunky interfaces. You can make precise or sweeping edits in seconds, freeing your mind for what really matters: asking the right questions, not formatting them.

This kind of magical editing is one of the reasons why people love working with the AI survey builder, especially when surveys need to be adjusted for specific community events or festival themes. And if you want to generate a different survey about something else from scratch, try the AI survey generator.

Ways to share: landing page or in‑product delivery

After you’ve built your survey, getting it to the right audience is seamless with Specific. You have two main options to deliver your citizen community events and festivals survey:

• Sharable landing page surveys – Perfect for publicizing community events or gauging festival satisfaction from a broader audience. Share the survey link on your local council website, include it in newsletters, or post it in community social groups to reach citizens at their convenience.

• In-product surveys – If you manage a municipal services app or event listing site, present the survey directly inside your product as a chat widget. This is especially effective to catch feedback immediately after someone uses an event map, books a ticket, or accesses festival information.

Both delivery options keep things conversational, mobile-friendly, and easy to access. Pick the approach that fits your citizens’ habits and the context of each event.

AI-driven analysis: from data to community insights

Once citizen responses start coming in, Specific’s AI survey analysis does the heavy lifting—summarizing every response, spotting key themes, and automatically detecting what matters most to your community. There’s no need to struggle with messy spreadsheets or spend hours sorting open-ended feedback. The AI surveys analyze your data in minutes, not days, so you move fast and take action while the event is still top-of-mind. [2]

If you want to see how to get the most out of your feedback, check our guide on how to analyze citizen community events and festivals survey responses with AI. Or dig deeper into features like chatting with GPT about responses at AI survey response analysis.

Use this community events and festivals survey template now

Don’t miss the chance to collect richer, more actionable community feedback. Start using the AI-powered citizen survey template for community events and festivals now—and turn every response into genuine insight for your next event.