Types Of Research

Question 1

What are some examples of primary data?

Answer 1

(Researcher’s own)
Questionnaires
Interviews
Observation

Question 2

What are some examples of secondary data?

Answer 2

Official documents
Official statistics
Personal documents/sources

Question 3

What are the 4 sampling techniques?

Answer 3

Random sampling

Quasi-random sampling

Quota sampling

Stratified sampling

Question 4

What’s stratified sampling?

Answer 4

Breaking down people into demographics and making their representation in the sample proportional.

Question 5

What’s quota sampling.

Answer 5

A quota being, an expected composition and number of people in a sample deemed appropriate.

Question 6

Quasi random or ‘systematic sampling’

Answer 6

Using a method of selection based on a process, for example, every 4th person in an optional list of people who’ve applied.

Question 7

Describe random sampling.

Answer 7

Picking without discrimination or bias, the people for a sample bu chance alone.

Question 8

What’s a pilot study

Answer 8

A method used to validate and refine your method be a trial to be able to identify what are it’s deficits or what might prove cumbersome when it comes time to doing the real one.

Question 9

What’s opportunity sampling?

Answer 9

Taking whoever happens to be where you’re conducting the study.

Question 10

What is the comparative method?

Answer 10

In essence,
A thought experiment in the minds of a theorist.
Comparing two sets of people and thinking about their differences and similarities.