Would you like to know which party best addresses the Victorian election issues most important to you? Would you like to tell the political parties what you want this election?

You can do this by visiting the ABC's Vote Compass website.

Vote Compass is a 10-minute questionnaire that asks what issues are important to you and allows you to rate the performance of the parties and their leaders.

Melbourne University's Dr Aaron Martin is a political scientist who spent the past six months working with the Vote Compass team to design and validate the questionnaire.

"The Vote Compass process has been a long one where we've gone from around 150 questions then we've arrived at about 30 questions which we think represent the most important issues to the Victorian public," he said.

"So we have a number of questions on important issues like health, education and transport."

People will be asked their views on TAFE, the East West Link and how much should be spent on bike lanes and cycling projects.

Voter literacy tool

Vote Compass was developed in Canada and first used in Australia during last year's federal election.

ABC election analyst Antony Green said 1.4 million Australians used Vote Compass during the federal campaign.

"We actually treated voters as interested in the process and having a chance to answer some policy questions where too often politics in Australia is about the politicians telling the public what to do," he said.

After the success of Vote Compass in the federal election, it will gauge the opinions of Victorian voters ahead of the state election on November 29.

Vote Compass not only surveys respondents, it provides policy information from each of the major parties relevant to each question.

"Once you have answered the questions, Vote Compass can show you what the policy positions are of each of the major parties on each question," Green said.

"So if you are really interested in the policy of one of the questions you can actually go in and read the policy position of each of the political parties."

Dr Martin worked with the political parties to validate their positions in relation to each Vote Compass question and he calls it a voter literacy tool.

"I think the most important thing for us is to have people better informed about where the parties stand on particular issues so I think one of the problems in the current media environment is to really cut through the day to day ephemora of state politics," he said.

Share results on social media

Canadian Cliff van der Linden created Vote Compass and said survey respondents not only have the capacity to compare their views with the major parties, they can share and compare their results with friends on social media.

"In this latest edition we developed a much deeper integration which allows you to compare your results not only with the parties, but with your friends on Facebook directly within Vote Compass," he said.

"Our hope is that this encourages the breadth and depth of the discussion about the Victorian election campaign."

Once people have completed the survey, Green is encouraging them to fill out the demographic data requested.

"If we have the demographics for a vast number of people filling in the survey we're able to weight the sample to make it reflect the population of Victoria and provide a better measure of what the public are thinking," he said.

Some of that data has the potential for fascinating social insight.

Survey respondents will be asked what football team they support and political lines are likely to be drawn through some clubs.

"I think it will be really interesting to actually look at where supporters of particular teams place themselves on particular questions," Dr Martin said.

Vote Compass is your chance to tell the ABC and the major parties what are the most important election issues for you.

All you need to do is log on to abc.net.au/votecompass and complete the survey.

The ABC will report the Vote Compass results throughout the Victorian election campaign.