Questionnaires

Question 1

What is Open questionnaires?

Answer 1

Respondents are free to give whatever answer they wish and elaborate where they want without any preselected information. The data produce qualitative and allows them to explain so you get richer data

Question 2

What is Closed questionnaire?

Answer 2

Respondents are free to choose from a limtied range of possible answers ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or multiple choice precoded to provide quantitative data and so researchers can count the number of respondents easily

Question 3

What is Practical Advantage of Questionnaires?

Answer 3

• Quick and cheap and to gather larger amounts of data
• Easy to distribute
• doesn’t take up respondents time
• Broad range of respondents and increases representativeness

Question 4

What is Practical Disadvantage of Questionnaires?

Answer 4

• Low response rate because high drop out
• Answer may not fit the given (Closed)
• Open questions can be time consuming to analyse

Question 5

What are the Ethical issues of Questionnaires?

Answer 5

• potentially sensitive topics can cause distress
• Questionnaires may disclose respondents immoral behaviour

Question 6

What Theoretical Advantage of Questionnaires?

Answer 6

• Open questionnaire gives detailed data
• Reliable -Large Sample
• closed questionnaire is Easy to quantify and analyse

Question 7

What Theoretical issues of Questionnaires

Answer 7

• closed questions lack validity due to responses
• Open questionnaires may lack reliability as responses will less likely be reported