I need to do a survey that helps determine paper usage. Does anyone have any good questions for this?

post a notice on all the phone poles in your city. make sure you do not miss any.

Try to call some companies in your area, and see what their usage is? That will give you some ideas. Talk to the HR department and tell them your a student and you need to do a survey and find out what it is...

Try to be creative and think of your on questions like

How often do you use paper?

Do you recycle it or just throw it out?

Do you use scrap paper?

and so on.

Or you can just ask random people how many pieces of paper they use a day...

The questions may not come fast but they will come to you eventually.

Some ideas...

#1: Name arts and crafts using paper (origami, marbling, printing, scrapbooking, embossing, mail-art)

#2: Name paper artists ( http://www.electroniccottage.com/paper.html )

#3: Everyday usage of paper (cleenex, toilet paper)

#4: Ideas about what to do with old newspapers (hats, paper sculptures)

As you may have guessed by now, I'm an artist using paper myself...:-)