Fieldwork (human geography enquiry)

Question 1

What is the title for human geography enquiry?

Answer 1

How does quality of life vary in Reigate?

Question 2

How was the fieldwork related to what you have studied in class?

Answer 2

studied urban development and urban issues and challenges

Question 3

What were you trying to investigate?

Answer 3

how quality of life varies in Reigate through location

Question 4

What was your hypothesis?

Answer 4

quality of life in Reigate will differ by location

Question 5

What theory linked to this fieldwork?

Answer 5

Index of Deprivation

Question 6

How many dimensions makes up the Index of Deprivation?

Answer 6

7 dimensions

Question 7

Give examples of dimensions that make up the Index of Deprivation

Answer 7

income
employment
health
education
crime
services
living environment

Question 8

What were the main risks of this fieldwork?

Answer 8

traffic
strangers
weather
getting lost

Question 9

How did you reduce the risks?

Answer 9

• pedestrian crossings / pavements
• group of 4
• sun cream/layers
• emergency details/maps on phone

Question 10

What was the primary data collected?

Answer 10

EQS
Car survey
photographs
place check
epitome words
soundscape
sampling with grid square

Question 11

What was the secondary data used?

Answer 11

census data
index of multiple deprivation
house price data
newspapers

Question 12

What were the advantages of using a grid square?

Answer 12

eliminates bias
representative of street

Question 13

What were the disadvantages of using a grid square?

Answer 13

miss something
street may change

Question 14

What sampling methods did you use?

Answer 14

systematic

Question 15

What is the advantage of using systematic data?

Answer 15

depicts change over space and time

Question 16

What is the disadvantage of using systematic data?

Answer 16

miss large patterns/small patterns

Question 17

Did your data collection method help prove your hypothesis?

Answer 17

quality of life increased moving north through Reigate

Question 18

How did you chose to present your data?

Answer 18

bar chart
annotated photographs
proportional symbols

Question 19

Why was a bar chart a good way of presenting data?

Answer 19

see trends clearly
categorical data
quick to analyse

Question 20

Why was an annotated photograph a good way of presenting data?

Answer 20

visual
socio-econ-environ characteristics

Question 21

Why was proportional symbols a good way of presenting data?

Answer 21

map - visual change over space

Question 22

What did you find out from your fieldwork?

Answer 22

quality of life improves moving north through reigate

Question 23

How would I improve my fieldwork?

Answer 23

take repeats - return to area
subjective - use other’s opinions

Question 24

How was my fieldwork reliable?

Answer 24

15 locations - good coverage of area

Question 25

How could I improve my data collection?

Answer 25

different times of day/season

Question 26

What are your main conclusions?

Answer 26

close to Reigate Hill is most desirable - High Trees Road

Question 27

What other ways of data presentation could you have used?

Answer 27

pie chart choropleth map

Question 28

What is primary data?

Answer 28

data collected by ourselves

Question 29

What is secondary data?

Answer 29

data collected by someone else before

Question 30

What is qualitative data?

Answer 30

data described linguistically

Question 31

Give examples of qualitative data

Answer 31

annotated photographs opinions newspapers

Question 32

What is quantitative data?

Answer 32

data described numerically

Question 33

Give examples of quantitative data

Answer 33

statistics graphs charts

Question 34

What is quality of life?

Answer 34

well being of population or individual at specific point in time

Question 35

Where is Reigate located nationally?

Answer 35

South East

Question 36

Where is Reigate located regionaly?

Answer 36

near London motorway airports

Question 37

Where is Reigate located locally?

Answer 37

North Downs Crawley

Question 38

Justify the location for this fieldwork

Answer 38

local - return low risk range of land uses

Question 39

What is an environmental quality survey?

Answer 39

bi polar analysis assessing quality of environment

Question 40

What is a car survey?

Answer 40

tally of car brands in area

Question 41

What is an annotated photograph?

Answer 41

photograph with opinions / features labelled

Question 42

What is a place check?

Answer 42

describing amiable and disliked parts of area

Question 43

What is the IMD?

Answer 43

UK government study measuring deprivation at small area level

Question 44

What are epitome words?

Answer 44

three words to describe a place

Question 45

What is a soundscape?

Answer 45

recording sounds using pictures or words with reference to proximity

Question 46

What is an advantage of the IMD?

Answer 46

trusted reliable allows comparison

Question 47

What is a disadvantage of the IMD?

Answer 47

not real perspectives/experiences feelings and attitudes should be used

Question 48

What does the IMD tell us about quality of life in reigate?

Answer 48

moving northwards

Question 49

How reliable is the conclusion drawn from the IMD?

Answer 49

government sourced based on 2019 - changed? not speaking to population

Question 50

What is a census?

Answer 50

system of recording data every 10 years lawfully obliged

Question 51

What is an advantage of the census?

Answer 51

socioeconomic temporal change

Question 52

What is a disadvantage of the census?

Answer 52

every 10 years lacking experiences lacking attitudes and feelings

Question 53

What does the census tell us about quality of life in Reigate?

Answer 53

pattern or deprivation

Question 54

How reliable is the census?

Answer 54

office for national statistics 10 years ago