QUESTIONNAIRES

• What is a closed questionnaire?

  respondents must choose from a limited range of possible answers that the researcher has chosen
• what is an open questionnaire?

  respondents are free to give whatever answer they wish without preselected parts from researcher
• What are the practical advantages of a questionnaire?

  Quick and cheap

  no need to recruit and train people

  data is easy to quantify and analyse
• What are the theoretical advantages of questionnaires?

  reliable and representative
• What are the practical disadvantages of questionnaires?

  limited and brief data

  imposition problem
• what are the ethical advantages of questionnaires?

  participants are under no obligation to answer any sensitive questions

  consent is gained as they answer it

  participants are kept anonymous
• What are the disadvantages of questionnaires?

  low response rate

  cannot change questions / add any more

  only a snapshot

  lacks validity

  right answerism

  imposing the researchers true meanings
• what is right answerism?

  the participants change their answers to please the researcher and seem more respectable ect