Questionnaires / Surveys Flashcards
Types of Questionnaires / Surveys
Census, Online survey, Telephone questions, Postal
What are the Key words?
Open and closed
Advantages of surveys
Generate large amounts of quantitative data which can be used to identify anomalies, they can include variables like CAGE, they are cheap because they are the same questions
Disadvantages of surveys
Might not make qualitative data, being time consuming to put all patterns and trends together
Advantages of postal/online, telephone questionnaires
They are quick, cheap and efficient gaining large amounts of data, questions are made to get ‘real world’ information
Disadvantages of postal/online,telephone questionnaires
Questions may not be understood so answered wrong, response rate might be low