Topic 6 - Human Fieldwork✔️

Question 1

Enquiry question?

Answer 1

How and why are there variations in quality of life for different areas within bournemouth

Question 2

Study location?

Answer 2

Boscombe - part of a bournemouth town - south coast of england

Question 3

Name a risk with the fieldwork?

Answer 3

-could get lost from the group
-be careful with other people
-wear sunscreen/hats/glasses if hot

Question 4

What is quality of life?

Answer 4

The genreal well-being, happiness and contenment of an indivisual,family or society eg amount of green space , quality of vehicles

Question 5

What is standard of living?

Answer 5

Refers to the level of wealth,comfort,material goods and necessities available to an indivisual eg feeling of safte or healthcare

Question 6

Explain fully how a biopolar survery works?

Answer 6

1)go to a location and give it a reading for noise/green space/services/traffic and saftey

Equpment:biopolar survey table

Limintaions:weather/could be dangrous/human error

Question 7

Explain how a traffic count would be carried out?

Answer 7

1)everyone choose a different vehicle then set a 5 min timer and count how many of your vehicle goes past

Equipment:stopwatch/result table

Limitations:human error/where we are located

Question 8

Explain how to carry out mood mapping?

Answer 8

1)using a mood board we choose the mood that best repersents that locationlocation(eg scared)

Equipment:moad board/pen

Limitations:personal opinion/human error

Question 9

Explain how to carry out housing quality survey?

Answer 9

1)visit 4 chosen houses which are all different and rate them on quality/features/apperance

Equipment:table/pen

Limitations:hard to judge/opinion/human error

Question 10

What are the pros and cons of annotated photographs?

Answer 10

Pros:secondary data so you dont have to take the picture or be there

Cons:not your picture you do not know if it is 100% the right location or what might be arround the house (hard to judge a whole area with just a still image not 360 degrees)

Question 11

What location had a worse standard of living and quality of life

Answer 11

Boscombe west - Churchill gardens

Question 12

What location had a better standard of living and quality of life

Answer 12

Boscombe east - shelley Park

Question 13

What is primary data?

Answer 13

Information that is collected first-hand eg photographs,tallies or measurements

Question 14

What is secondary data?

Answer 14

Information that someone else has previously collecte and made available eg on the internet

Question 15

Name three sampling techniques?

Answer 15

-random sampling
-systematic sampling
-stratified sampling

Question 16

Explain random samplinng?

Answer 16

Selecting a person or location at random - is unbiased as particular people or places are not specifically selected

Question 17

Explain systematic sampling?

Answer 17

Collecting data in an ordered or regular way eg every fifth person

Question 18

What is statified sampling?

Answer 18

Dividing sampling into groups eg three sites from each section of coastline - it is possible to combine stratified samping with random and systematic sampling

Question 19

What is stratified random sampling?

Answer 19

Random samples are taken from within certain categories

Question 20

What is stratefied systematic sampling?

Answer 20

Regualr samples are taken from within certain categories

Question 21

What are some risks with human fieldwork?

Answer 21

-people
-weather - sunny or stormy
-getting lost

Question 22

What is boscombe east deprivation index?

Answer 22

22,482 th

Question 23

What is boscombe east deprivation index?

Answer 23

336th

Question 24

What are some features of Boscombe east?

Answer 24

-average age is 36 years
-84% very good health
-50% housing owned
-58 crimes
-life expectancy 10 years more then boscombe west

Question 25

What are some features of Boscombe west?

Answer 25

-average age is 38 years -75% very good health -24% housing owned -489 crimes -life expectancy 10 years less then boscombe east

Question 26

Boscombe east average house price?

Answer 26

£800,000

Question 27

Boscombe west average house price?

Answer 27

£189,000

Question 28

How did we measure enviormental features in Bosombe East and West?

Answer 28

-systematic sampling measured on a main road and measured 7 different factors:noise/greenery and open space -measured using bi-polar scale9

Question 29

What is quantitative data?

Answer 29

Usually consists of factual information that can be counted and used in fieldwork

Question 30

what is qualative data?

Answer 30

Data is more opnion-based but is still useful for geographic investigations eg mood mapping

Question 31

How did we measure quality of life in Boscombe east and west?

Answer 31

Systematic sampling - we placed a dot in the middle of the map of boscombe east and boscombe west - we then found the closest building and took a photo and annotated the diagram with factors

Question 32

What factors did we annoate the diagram with?

Answer 32

-house type -house density -green space -air quality

Question 33

conclusion for the data we collected on the bi-polar?

Answer 33

Boscombe east scored a total of 21 on the bio-polar survey where as boscombe west scored 2 showing more noise,vandilism and less services for boscombe west and therefore possibly a worse quality of life

Question 34

conclusion for the data we collected on housing quality survey?

Answer 34

On the housing quality boscombe west scored -11 which suggests the houses are smaller not as looked after and lack green space this is compared to Boscombe east which scored 18 however there is the issue of personal prefrence and what is available for us to see

Question 35

What factors with the housing quality survey did we measure?

Answer 35

-windows -paint/brick work -garden -tidyness -security

Question 36

Benefit of quantative data?

Answer 36

Can easily be compared with other data

Question 37

Benefit of qualative data?

Answer 37

Qualitative research allows you to ask questions that cannot be easily put into numbers to understand human experience - more opinion bases so there is no right or wrong

Question 38

Issues with quantitative data?

Answer 38

- less detailed picture - can be misleading - limited scope of data collection

Question 39

Issues with qua

Answer 39

- can be time consuming to collect - creats subjective information points - often difficult to replicate