personal documents

Question 1

advantages

Answer 1

• written for personal purposes, high valid, in depth, cheap and time saving, illuminates areas of social life, use them to confirm or question other interpretations

Question 2

disadvantages

Answer 2

• personal documents written with an audience in mind, may affect what is being recorded
• personal bias
• time consuming for respondent

Question 3

closed ended

Answer 3

restricted range of options to respond with

• makes it easy to produce statistical data
• constricting, limited data

Question 4

open ended

Answer 4

can respond with whatever they want

• more in depth data
• answers needed to be interpreted, time consuming