Urban Fieldwork Flashcards
What location did you visit and why?
North Finchley and whetstone
Both were local and accessible
What is investigation title?
How and why does inequality and sustainability vary between North Finchley high street and Wheatstone high street
What theory did you use to support your investigation? PQLI
Inequality- index multiple deprivation
Sustainability- three legged stool model
What is your sampling technique?
Stratified
Why have you used that sampling technique?
Safety
Time management
Accessibility
Allows us to collect a range of data
What primary data did you collect?
Questionnaire
Environmental quality survey
Photos
Pedestrian count
Questionnaire
How and why collect it?
Sampling strategy
Equipment
Ask people a series of questions in pairs. Speak to at least 2 people on each high street
Get public opinion on environment
Random sampling- range of data
Pencil/ pen, questionnaire
Environmental quality survey
How and why collect it?
Sampling strategy
Rank different qualities on a scale of 1-5 for each location you will add the separate scores together to get a total. Totals can be used to compare locations.
Stratified sampling - data will show a change
Photos
How and why collect it?
Sampling strategy
Take photos along the high street. 4 photos at each of the 4 sites on each high street.
Stratified sampling- allows comparison between two high streets
Pedestrian count
How and why collect it?
Sampling strategy
Stand in one place. Count everybody that walks past you in a 2 minute period.
Quantitative data used?
Environmental quality survey
Pedestrian count
Qualitative data used?
Questionnaire
Photos
Conclusion you came to
Whetstone appears to have a more sustainable high street with less inequality in both the primary and secondary data.
What would increase the validity of our conclusion
Collected more data
More days of the week
More times of year
Sampled systematically instead of random
Utilised more secondary data
