Questionnaire...
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FunkyHouseKitten
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ditto, got 3 essays in by end of December but would rather ewaste my time arsing around.
Who cares how gandhi was politically socialised anyway.
Who cares how gandhi was politically socialised anyway.
Fergie19 said:Currently making up a questionnaire survey for my dissertation. However, after reading about 100 pages on methods etc, it appears there's more to them than I had previously expected
Anyone here got any experience in this field?
p.s-if not, back to the randomness
I did questionnaires for my dissertation to get quantative and qualatitive data, I'm going back quite a while tho
What do you want to know Fergie and I'll rack the old braincells 
Cheers Sar
Was initially going to gather qualitative data through interviews, but due to time restrictions this isnt feasable.
So...need to gather both qualitative and quantitive data through the questionnaire study. Trying to find out if:
-Consumer demographics affect purchasing decisions online
-What products consumers would consider to buy online
-is safety an issue
-do consumer believe that one day online retailing will pet an end to 'bricks and mortar' retailing
Any help would be good?
Fergie19 said:
Cheers Sar
Was initially going to gather qualitative data through interviews, but due to time restrictions this isnt feasable.
So...need to gather both qualitative and quantitive data through the questionnaire study. Trying to find out if:
-Consumer demographics affect purchasing decisions online
-What products consumers would consider to buy online
-is safety an issue
-do consumer believe that one day online retailing will pet an end to 'bricks and mortar' retailing
Any help would be good?
fukcin hell
Fergie19 said:Cheers Sar
Was initially going to gather qualitative data through interviews, but due to time restrictions this isnt feasable.
So...need to gather both qualitative and quantitive data through the questionnaire study. Trying to find out if:
-Consumer demographics affect purchasing decisions online
-What products consumers would consider to buy online
-is safety an issue
-do consumer believe that one day online retailing will pet an end to 'bricks and mortar' retailing
Any help would be good?
First of all (whether you actually do this or not is up to you but pretend you have when you write it up
) is do a pilot study questionnaire of say 20 people, then from the results that come back from that you can say how you've then amended your questionnaire before it goes out to x no of people. Examiners love this If you want quantative and qualatitive data you'll need both open and closed questions so some questions will just be a yes/no answer or whatever and then others will give people opportunity to elaborate their answers and you can get more of an idea of their behaviour and motivations as opposed to just their opinions.
If you're looking at demographics, I'd focus your questionnaire to 2 catchment areas (one city, one more rural). Ask them the same questions and then compare the 2.
Also if you wanted to back it up with more qualatitive data have you thought bout speaking to online retailers, say the people behind Tesco.com and that way you could interview them (using similar questions to your questionnaire but from retailer perspective as opposed to consumer) and see if what they experience first-hand refutes or supports what consumers are saying.
Lecturers love it if you show you've demonstrated more than one methodology in your dissertation. The main thing is they know that as student you've got massive time/financial constraints so you're not going to do some massive funk off survey, it's just showing that you can do it on small scale.
That's probably loads of waffle, without knowing more bout the background and how long you've got/how many people you want to speak to it's quite hard but feel free to e-mail me with questions.
glasgow-chick
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Fergie19 said:
Cheers Sar
Was initially going to gather qualitative data through interviews, but due to time restrictions this isnt feasable.
So...need to gather both qualitative and quantitive data through the questionnaire study. Trying to find out if:
-Consumer demographics affect purchasing decisions online
-What products consumers would consider to buy online
-is safety an issue
-do consumer believe that one day online retailing will pet an end to 'bricks and mortar' retailing
Any help would be good?
I'm in research Fergie but don't know much about your subject area. You could draft a questionnaire and email it to me if you want and I could comment on it.
Try to keep your questionnaire as simple as possible as people are generally pretty bad at filling them in. Also make sure you have a note at the end thanking the respondents and telling them their info will be held confidentially.
Will you be entering the data into a statistical package or a database?
Your quantitative data could be a yes/no question and the qualitative part an 'Explain your answer' box. I would keep qualitative questions to a minimum.
Do a pilot study to see if the questionnaire is user friendly.
Thankyou very much Sar, spot on.
Was planning on doing the interview part with online retailers as well, but don't think I'll have enough time to use multi methods.
In your opinion, will this be severly maked down becasue of that?(e.g just using one method?
Multi methods would be best as it would allow for triangulation of research findinds etc, just dont think I could fit it all in
Was planning on doing the interview part with online retailers as well, but don't think I'll have enough time to use multi methods.
In your opinion, will this be severly maked down becasue of that?(e.g just using one method?
Multi methods would be best as it would allow for triangulation of research findinds etc, just dont think I could fit it all in
Fergie19 said:
I wouldn't say it would make a difference to your final mark, as long as the research you do carry out is spot on and really in depth. You could say in the final conclusion that with more time etc you would have tried to support your findings with other methods eg. interviews etc.
The other thing to remember is that you don't actually have to do all the actual research, you can just make some of it up
That would be great thanks.
The questionnaire is going to be administered by myself using non-probability convenience sampling, so I'll have to just tell the respondants that the info. is confidential.
I plan to put the data into the SPSS package.
Currently the most of the questions(quantitative in nature) give the respondants a range of about 5 answers. e.g what salary bracket?...
glasgow-chick
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Fergie19 said:
I've done quite alot of data entry and you definitely want to keep it all very simple because it can take you a long time to enter it! Need any help with data entry into SPSS just pm me.