survey

Question 1

What is a survey?

Answer 1

-a large-scale quantitative approach to research

Question 2

What methods of research are used in surveys?

Answer 2

-questionaires
-structured interviews
-closed questions

Question 3

What is the crime survey for england and wales?

Answer 3

-CSEW is a victimisation survey
-attempts to measure the true extent of crime
-pick 50k-75k households
-questions include:how bad the crime in their area is, whether they’ve been affected by crime
-they found that only 4-10 people report crimes to police,shows a gap in crime figures

Question 4

strengths for surveys?

Answer 4

-data collected is objective and unbiased

-cheap and easy to collect

Question 5

What are weaknesses of surveys?

Answer 5

interpretation-people may understand the question differently, this decreases validity

-closed questions:restrict participants from responding in detail or fully explaining themselves

Question 6

What is a longditudinal study?

Answer 6

• a study that involves repeated observations of the same variable over short or long period of time
  -e.g 7up studu

Question 7

strengths of longitudinal studies?

Answer 7

-they allow researchers to trace developments overtime

-by making comparrisons they can analyse causes