Questionaires

• Questionaires definition

  set of questions asked to respondants either postal, paper based or electronically. Two tpes of questions open(more of a discussion) closed (yes or no).
• 5 aims of questionaires

  • quantitative
  • representitive
  • dosent gain verstehen
  • reliable
  • generalisable
  • positivist
• Practice strengths

  • quick
  • cheap
  • low skill set= dont have to pay for training
  • response is high for students because they are insitucted by teachers
• Practical limitations

  • response rate is low
  • questions can be inflexible
• How to overcome practical limitations

  • give an incentive such as a free prizedraw
  • conduct a pilot study
• ethical strengths

  • very few ethical issues
• ethical strength

  • right to witdraw
  • can be annoymous
  • dont have to answer
  • trauma/ triggers
• overcome ethical limitations


  change method to unstrucuted interview(dobash and dobash)
• theoretical strengths

  • reliable, generalisable, representitive, objectivity
  • detached from questionaires
  • testing hypothesis
• thoretical limitations

  • dont give validity or versteheim
  • people lie or forget
  • may be bias
• how can theoretical imitations be overcome

  • choose another method
  • mixed method or triangulation
• Connor and dewson

  • question 4000 people , sent out 100,000 questionaires and got 4.5% back
  • links ton the practicle limitation respnse rate
• dobash and dobash

  • studied domestic violence victims chose unstrcutred interivews
  • links to trying to avoid trauma/triggers