Dear Pat,
Check these three studies out:
Article An Exploration of the Unmet Demand for Home Birth in Ireland
Article The influence of preferred place of birth on the course of p...
Interesting question! Although generally I don't see questionnaires included with publications, you can likely email the corresponding author to request a copy.
For pregnant women's views on home birth/delivery, there are results from a 2010 National Survey of Women’s Experience of Maternity Care in the UK. You can find a link to the pdf below:
https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/downloads/files/reports/Maternity-Survey-Report-2010.pdf
You likely know, The Netherlands has an official home birth system.
The influence of preferred place of birth on the course of pregnancy and labor among healthy nulliparous women: a prospective cohort study
http://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-015-0455-x
Dutch women's perceptions of childbirth in the Netherlands.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17479054
You may also like the 2013 article: Why do women prefer home births in Ethiopia?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2hPaiCY8RwIJ:bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2393-13-5+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Factors Influencing Women's Preferences for Places to Give Birth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ogi/2015/439748/
Also, there's a 2009 report on the experiences of 559 women who had a planned home birth over a 2-year period in British Columbia, The Experience of Planned Home Birth:Views of the First 500 Women
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+Experience+of+Planned+Home+Birth%3A+Views+of+the+First+500+Women
There's a 2011 article in The Guardian, which may also have useful links:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/16/home-birth-trial-or-rewarding
In related notes, you may find the following WHO infographic useful:
State of the world's midwifery 2014
http://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/news_events/events/2014/midwifery_infographic.pdf?ua=1
Also, in Poland, there's a Foundation for Childbirth w/Dignity, the continuation of a national campaign, aimed at initiating a public dialogue on childbirth:
http://www.who.int/features/2015/childbirth-dignity-poland/en/
And finally, you may like the background in WHO Safe Motherhood, Care in Normal Birth, a practical guide, Section 2.4 Place of Birth:
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/63167/1/WHO_FRH_MSM_96.24.pdf
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