There are a wide variety of sources of information needed to fully examine and understand places

Question 1

What are forms of qualitative data?

Answer 1

Photographs
Tests from various media
Artistic representation

Question 2

What does meaning define as?

Answer 2

Meaning relates to individual or collective perceptions of place

Question 3

What does media define as?

Answer 3

Means of communication including television, film, photography, art, newspapers, books, songs, etc

Question 4

What does objective mean?

Answer 4

Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

Question 5

What is qualitative data?

Answer 5

Information that is non-numerical and used in a relatively unstructured and open-ended way. It is descriptive information, which often comes from interviews, focus groups or artistic depictions such as photographs. Some types of qualitative data, such as interviews, can be coded and may then be subject to quantitative analysis.

Question 6

What is quantitative data?

Answer 6

Data that can be quantified and verified, and is amenable to statistical manipulation

Question 7

What does subjective define as?

Answer 7

Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions

Question 8

What are the benefits of census data?

Answer 8

It provides large-scale, quantitative data, which can be used by agencies to better understand and plan for population growth and other demographic changes

Question 9

What is an example of a census?

Answer 9

St Clement’s ward census data - 2011

Question 10

What are the benefits of interviews?

Answer 10

They can generate detailed insights about a person’s sense of place or perception of a place
Informal, open ended, flexible
Collect primary data which gives an in-depth understanding of people’s lives and their lived experiences
Allows respondents to raise issues that the interviewer may not have anticipated

Question 11

What are the disadvantages of interviews?

Answer 11

Bias - interviewer may affect the responses of the interviewee by using leading questions
People may lie to put themselves in a favourable light
Time-consuming

Question 12

What is ethnography?

Answer 12

Explores what people do as well as say - they would participate in the daily life of a person or group

Question 13

What are the disadvantages of photos?

Answer 13

We are in a society where photoshopping has become more attractive - people are increasingly editing photographs to improve the image or perception of the place