Questionnaires

Question 1

What are the types of sampling?

Answer 1

Random Sampling

Quasi random sampling (every tenth or hundredth name selected)

Stratified random sampling (dividing population into groups and then taking a small sample of each)

Quota sampling (researcher looks for the right people)

Snowball sampling (people find more people with the same characteristics)

Cluster sampling (dividing a population into groups - usually geographically)

Question 2

Advantages

Answer 2

quick, cheap, reliable, representative, generalisable, patterns cuz of pre-coded questions, objective

Question 3

Disadvantages

Answer 3

Inflexible, low response rate, can be biased, can be unvalid

Question 4

What are the 2 types of questionnaires?

Answer 4

Open ended and Closed ended

Question 5

What are Open ended questionnaires?

Answer 5

Questionnaires with a number of pre-set questions with NO pre-set answers.

Question 6

What type of data do open ended questionnaires produce?

Answer 6

Qualitative

Question 7

What are close ended questionnaires?

Answer 7

Questionnaires with a limited number of possible answers eg. ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions

Question 8

What type of data do closed ended questionnaires produce?

Answer 8

Quantitative