Questionaires

Question 1

What are closed questions in a questionnaire

Answer 1

Have a fixed number of possibilities e.g tick boxes

Question 2

Pros of closed questions

Answer 2

Easy to process
The responses won’t be ambiguous if the question is well designed

Question 3

Cons of closed questions

Answer 3

The answers are limited to the options given

Question 4

What are opinión scales used for

Answer 4

To show how strongly they agree or disagree

Question 5

What are open questions

Answer 5

Allow any answers

Question 6

Pros of open questions

Answer 6

Let people say exactly what they think

Question 7

Cons of open questions

Answer 7

End up with a wide range of answers and the data is more difficult to process

Question 8

How to design the question correctly

Answer 8

1) make sure the questions are relevant
2) questions should be clear brief and easy to understand
3) allow for all possible answers to the questions
4) questions shouldn’t be leading or biased
5) questions should be unambiguous
6) people may not answer questions truthfully

Question 9

What might a leading question look like

Answer 9

Leading the interviewee to answer the question in a specific way

Question 10

What does it mean if the question is ambiguous

Answer 10

They people might interpret the question differently
For example peoples ideas of a lot, sometimes and often are different

Question 11

Why might people not answer a question honestly

Answer 11

If the question is sensitive or embarrassing

Question 12

Pros of questionnaires

Answer 12

Are quick and cheap to make
Shouldn’t be biased
Respondents aren’t under pressure so are likely to be truthful
Lots of ways to distribute them to large numbers

Question 13

Cons of questionnaires

Answer 13

The distribution of questionnaires can lead to bias depending on the method
They are easy to ignore so could be lots of non responses
Questions might not be understood by the respondent

Question 14

4 different ways to share questionnaires

Answer 14

Hand it out
Put it online
Send it in the post/by email
Ask people to collect it

Question 15

What are the adv and dis of handing out the questionnaire

Answer 15

The target population gets the questionnaire but it is very time consuming

Question 16

Adv and dis of putting the questionnaires online

Answer 16

Data is recorded and collected easily but people without internet access are excluded

Question 17

What are adv and dis of sending questionnaires by post or email

Answer 17

They are wide reaching but people may not respond

Question 18

Adv and dis of asking people to collect it

Answer 18

Easy to do nut people with strong views are more likely to take one

Question 19

What is non response

Answer 19

When people in the sample don’t respond to the questionnaire

Question 20

How to improve response rates

Answer 20

-Use clear questions that are easy to answer
-Follow up people who don’t respond to the questionnaire
-Provide incentive for them to answer e.g Enter them into a prize draw
-collect each of the questionnaires yourself this way you’ll get most or all of the responses but it’s very time consuming and not practical if the sample is across a large area

Question 21

What are incomplete responses

Answer 21

Are when people respond to the questionnaire but don’t answer very question

Question 22

How can you reduce missed answers

Answer 22

Make questions clear and not sensitive

Question 23

How to deal with incomplete responses

Answer 23

Discard all responses that are incomplete
Follow up people
Replace the missing answer by making an educated guess or substituting a value such as the mean
Analyse the incomplete response to find a cause

Question 24

What is a pilot study

Answer 24

Where you gets the questionnaire on a small group of people first

Question 25

What are the advantages of using a pilot study

Answer 25

Help spot questions that are unclear or ambiguous - fixing them should help increase responses rate
Might be an unexpected outcome - answers might refine your hypothesis
Can find problems before the real questionnaire so the money isn’t wasted
Can check your methods of distribution and collection work and can estimate the same and cost of doing the full study

Question 26

What can sensitive questions do to the data

Answer 26

Distort the data and lead to incomplete responses