Questionnaires: lesson 5

Question 1

What can Questionnaires be like?

Answer 1

• Open/closed
• Structured/ unstructured
• Post/ email or face to face

Question 2

What are 4 advantages of questionnaires?

Answer 2

• Quick & easy method of data collection, especially large groups of people (Practical advantage)
• Training of interviewers and researchers is not required (Practical advantage)
• Structured questionnaires produce quantitative data so easy to identify relationships between two variables
  -Highly representative

Question 3

What are 4 disadvantages of questionnaires?

Answer 3

• Low response rate impacts validity & representivness
• Detachment: can feel impersonal reducing validity of responses ( interpretivist perspectives)
• Structured questionnaires lack validity as they don’t capture full detailed opinions
• Right answerism: giving researcher answer they think they want