...difference between things you need to know, and those it would be nice to know. Eliminate unnecessary lines of questioning at the planning stage. Maximise your chances of success The aim of questionnaire design is to a) get as many responses as you can that are b) usable and accurate. To maximise your response rate: • Give your questionnaire a short and meaningful title • Keep the questionnaire as short and succinct as possible • Offer incentives for responding if appropriate • Be creative – use different colours and images to make it attractive • Make it convenient – enclose a Stamped Address Envelope if appropriate. Who should you ask? It may not be possible to survey every person who could provide a useful response to your questionnaire. In such cases, you will need to choose a sample from your population to survey....
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...take from quantitative or qualitative research (hsc.csu.edu.au, n.d). As the consultant for Heavenly Blush, we could suggest to use survey and questionnaires. From four types of primary research can be done, survey and questionnaires is the most effective. Heavenly Blush can conduct survey and questionnaire because by conduct both of them can clearly tell the information that the company needed. From survey, company can create a chart to make people easy to understand. Survey means a form of questioning that is stricter than interview and it is more general because it involves big scope of people (owl.english.purdue.edu, 2013). Heavenly Blush’s consultants would get the information that they want from the medium until large population. It is very useful than the consultants’ interview one by one to know the information of people think about Heavenly Blush. Questionnaire is often focus on the specific topic (hsc.csu.edu.au, n.d). For instance, if the consultants’ of Nike that want to know about what customer want from Nike’s products. So the consultants would ask some questions that are focus on one topic to fulfill the questions from Nike. As well as the Heavenly Blush’s consultants, they may ask some question to the large population to fulfill the objectives of conduct questionnaire. According to hsc.csu.edu.au, before conducting a survey or questionnaire, Heavenly Blush consultants should consider six stages; first, deciding upon the areas the consultants want to investigate...
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...longitudinal element to them. Having previously decided on our research proposal, we then have to derive a suitable sample. Within our proposed region of BELB primary schools (those who are classified under the Belfast Education and Library Board) there exists 31 schools. This was then formed as our sample frame, with the intention of getting the co-operation of as many schools as possible in order to make generalisations about the wider population as a result of our findings. As previously mentioned, BELB was chosen due to logistical and time issues we anticipated to keep to a minimal, in comparison to what a wider sample population would have created, Having previously decided on a questionnaire as the tool for our proposed method of survey; we then agreed on what questions to decide based on our background knowledge of the topic. ( A copy of the questionnaire can be found at appendix ). We were influenced by elements of a positivist perspective by focusing on a ‘closed-question’ style questionnaire. The advantages of this will be that it should allow for us to easily quantify our findings and as a result create Visual aids to help give increased understanding of our findings about the phenomena of the...
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...Thesis Presented in Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Psychology Course of BS(A&F) at FAST-NU, Lahore * * * * * Acknowledgement We have conducted a survey on the topic: “DETRIMENTAL IMPACTS OF BOTH WORKING PARENTS ON THEIR CHILDREN”. Before selecting this topic, we took instructions from our teachers and seniors. Under the supervision of or teacher, we prepared a questionnaire and conducted a survey. We are indebted to our teacher for her advice as we prepared this report. We are especially grateful to the students of FAST-NU, LUMS, LSE, GC University and Punjab University for giving their point of view regarding this topic and helping us with the survey. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract | 03 | Statement of Problem | 04 | Purpose | 04 | Central Phenomenon | 04 | Literature Review | 05 | Limitations of Study | 05 | Key Question | 05 | Survey Method | 06 | Introduction to The Topic | 10 | Causes: Why Do Parents Work? | 12 | Child Development: The Critical Parent-Child Relationship | 14 | What Kids Think About Working Parents | 17 | Stress on Working Mother | 18 | Effects on the Children of Working Parents | 19 | Problems Faced by the Children | 22 | Solutions to the Problems | 24 | Conclusion | 27 | Questionnaire | 28 | Graphical Representation of Survey | 33 | References | 34 | ABSTRACT Ever since both the parents began entering the work force, the debate has been looming over parents who enter the work force and...
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...Essentials of Management Information Systems, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey Founded by Tim and Nina Zagat, the Zagat Survey has collected and published ratings of restaurants by diners since 1979. Zagat publishes surveys for restaurants, hotels and nightlife in 70 major cities. Today, as more people use their smartphones for information on the go, Zagat is moving its content online and onto the mobile platform. It has been a struggle. Zagat has come a long way from its roots in the early 1980s when the food loving Zagats started compiling lists of their favourite restaurants for personal use and to share with their closest friends. To generate the first survey, the Zagats polled 200 people and increased that number over time. Executives, tourists and New York foodies alike found the list to be indispensable. Spurred by this success, the Zagats decided to publish a book with their survey themselves. The few booksellers that took a risk in stocking the book were rewarded with sales so robust that the Zagat Surveys became best sellers. The pair also published similar lists for other major cities, including Chicago, San Francisco and Washington DC. In addition to print books, Zagat opened a unit that creates custom guides for corporate clients, like the ones at Citibank. For a long time, this business model was sufficient to ensure that Zagat Survey was successful and profitable. When the dot-com bubble came along, venture capitalists were attracted to Zagat for its...
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...References Agresti, Alan (1996).Introduction to categorical data analysis. NY: John Wiley and Sons. Ahmed, N. (1976); Development Agriculture of Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh Books of International Ltd. BANBEIS (1998); Bangladesh Education Statistics (At a glance), Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. BBS, 2003: Report of the household expenditure survey 2000, Statistical Division, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka. BBS (2002); Statistical Year book of Bangladesh, 2001, Dhaka. Bunce, L. and R. Pomeroy. 2003. Socioeconomic Monitoring Guidelines for Coastal Managers in the Caribbean: SocMon Caribbean. GCRMN. Bunce, L., P. Townsley, R. Pomeroy, and R. Caribbean. GCRMN. Bunce, L., P. Townsley, R. Pomeroy, and R. Pollnac. 2000. Chandra KJ. Fish parasitological studies in Bangladesh: A Review. J Agric Rural Dev. 2006; 4: 9-18. Cochran, W.G. (1977); Sampling Techniques, 3rded. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern. Davis, James A. (1971). Elementary survey analysis. Des Raj (1971); Sampling Theory. Fox, J. 1984: Linear Statistical Models and Ravallion, M. and B. Sen 1996: When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 44: 761-792 Gujarati, Damodar.N; Basic Econometrics. 4TH edition; Mcgraw-Hill. Gupta, S.C., Kapoor; Fundamental of Mathematical Statistics. New Delhi. Heyman, W. and R. Graham (eds.). 2000. The voice of the fishermen of Southern Belize, Toledo Institute for Development...
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...data. RESEARCH DESIGN The researchers employed the descriptive method approach which, according to Thomas (2014), refers to the method used to describe data and characteristics used to describe the population. Its purpose is to acquire accurate, factual, systematic data that can provide an actual picture of the data set that are being reviewed. RESPONDENTS The researchers used ____ College Students from Education, Business Administration and Criminology Department who are currently enrolled in Metro Manila College, Novaliches Quezon City during the Academic year 2016 – 2017. SAMPLING TECHNIQUES The researchers utilized the cluster sampling technique in this study. According to Kelly (2013), Cluster sampling technique is a method of survey sampling which selects clusters such as groups defined by area of residence, organizational membership or other group-defining characteristics. It is often used where a complete list of subjects is impossible or impractical to construct. Cluster sampling is a two- (or more) stage process whereby clusters of individual units are first defined and selected and then samples of individual units are taken from each of the defined clusters. After getting the total population of each course from the registrar’s office and computing the 20 percent of each, the researcher came up with the total of ____ respondents for the BS Criminology, ___ respondents for the BS Education and ___ respondents for the BS Business Administration. The researchers...
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...Unit 1: Understanding Our Natural World Theme A: The Dynamic Landscape Specification: GCSE Geography Unit 1: Understanding Our Natural World Theme A: The Dynamic Landscape |Specification Content |Learning Outcomes |Teaching and Learning Activities |Resources | |The Drainage Basin: A |Students should be able to: | | | |Component of the Water Cycle | | | | | |demonstrate knowledge and understanding of|The two websites listed here give clear animations of the hydrological cycle |www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/flash/ flashwatercycle.html | | |the components of the drainage basin cycle|which students can watch and discuss. |www.sweetwater.org/education/ watercycle.swf | | |and their interrelationships: | | ...
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...respondents. The overriding objective is to translate the researcher’s information needs into a set of specific questions that respondents are willing and able to answer. While this may seem straightforward, questions may yield very different and unanticipated responses. For example, how would you answer the following question: "Which State is larger, California or Texas?" Would you answer based on population or area? Why Is a Questionnaire Important? A questionnaire is the main means of collecting quantitative primary data. A questionnaire enables quantitative data to be collected in a standardized way so that the data are internally consistent and coherent for analysis. Imagine how difficult it would be to analyze the data of a national survey conducted by 40 different interviewers if the questions had not been asked in a standard way, that is, if the interviewers had asked different questions using different 176 176 wording and order. A questionnaire ensures standardization and comparability of the data across interviewers, increases speed and accuracy of recording, and facilitates data processing. Questionnaire Design Process No scientific principles guarantee an optimal or ideal questionnaire. Questionnaire design is as much an art as it is a...
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...these will be further examined in this paper. Sampling Plan According to Cooper and Schindler (2014), the sampling plan includes five questions. These questions include (p. 344): * What is the target population? * What are the parameters of interest? * What is the sampling frame? * What is the appropriate sampling method? * What size sample is needed? Once you have answered all these questions, you can determine the appropriate sampling design for your study. Penton Media has created their sampling plan from these questions. The target population for Penton Media’s study is the people who read their business magazines. Their subscribers consist of 1.7 mission people in the US, so they originally tested out the survey via phone with a small selection of subscribers. They then...
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...groups to evaluate/ assess the satisfaction level of customer and identify the most determined factors made sales of car. ← Identify the most determined factors made sales ← Consumer satisfaction (quality and convenience) ← Most effective Communication campaign ← Suggestion for further improvement etc.. RESEARCH DESIGN 1 Target Segment Respondent details Will be provided by Skoda ... 2 Sample Size : 48 |Age Group |Sample Size | | | | | | | | | | 3.3 Area Coverage Kathmandu Valley 5 Overall Survey Methodology The study will be quantitative in nature. The structured questionnaire will be canvassed to respondents selected. The investigator will be trained to be able to administer the set questionnaire. INFORMATION AREAS To avail the required information to meet the objective of the study, following information areas will be included in the questionnaire. The key areas/ points of diagnosis would be: ➢ Various features of Car ➢ Most considerable factors for sale of car ➢ Services which improve sales in future ➢ Preferred means for communicating ad campaign as well as campaign .. 3. FIELDWORK Field...
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... Quantitative research is a more logical approach which provides a measure of what people think from a statistical and numerical point of view. For example, if you wanted to know how many of the customers like the new car or our new customer service and how strongly (on a scale) they support it, then this will provide the company with a numerical statistic. Quantitative research can gather a large amount of data that can be easily organized and conveyed into reports for analysis. How to do it Quantitative research uses methods such as questionnaires and surveys with set questions and answers that respondents tick from a predefined selection. Answers can be measured in strengths of feeling such as ‘strongly agree’ ‘disagree’ or numbers such as scales out of 10. This form of research will help Aston Martin to gather fair opinions about their products and services. Quantitative research — including surveys and customer questionnaires — can help ASTON MARTIN to improve their products and services by enabling them to make informed decisions * More reliable and objective * Can use statistics to generate a finding * Tests theories and hypothesis...
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...RES/351 Business Research Starbucks, Bank One & Visa Launch Starbucks Card 1. What types of research were done at each stage? Discuss the strengths of each different type given the stage of the project. Starbucks used the scientific method which consists of three different studies based on product functionality, product optimization, and brand tracking. The scientific method used to gather information about the target markets that they had or trying to approach. The product functionality study was carried out at the concept testing stage of the research, through the use of an online survey. The purpose was to understand which of the two credit card concepts customers preferred of the dual-function or two separate cards. This would determine if the product would or would not function as Starbucks desired, the findings of this study would be pertinent information to assist Starbucks and its affiliates in determining the strengths and/or weaknesses of the study’s design. The study of product optimization was used to see the concept stages of research. Starbucks used this study to see if certain features from the dual action card would determine if customer’s decision to apply for a credit card. The brand tracking was used to measure the return on the marketing investments based on the feedback after they launched the card. 2. Build the management-research question hierarchy for this project. The first question Starbucks had to answer was whether or...
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...Examine the problems some sociologist find with using postal questionnaires in their research. (20) There are many problems that some sociologist find when using postal questionnaires. Postal questionnaires are sent to homes and business in certain areas, postal questionnaire mainly use closed questions as positives use this method due to the fact, that they are able to interpret the data in to numerical form such as graphs. Positives use quantitative data because they believed that society is moulded by social factors and therefore can be measured using the same method as the natural science. One of the many problems of a postal questionnaire is that they take a lot more time and money then a normal questionnaire; this is due to the fact that the researcher has to pay for self addressing envelope. This appeals to the participant as they are more likely to fill out the questionnaire in as they can send it off without having to spend money. If the research didn’t use as self addressing envelope then the participant is less likely to fill in the questionnaire, as they will have to send it back to the researcher themselves. Another problem of a postal questionnaire is that due to the fact the researcher won’t be present handing the participant the questionnaire. This can lead to the participant not feeling pressured to complete the questionnaire and therefore they might not complete it, or they might just discard it as they don’t have the time to fill it in. Due to this the...
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...Quality Improvement Plan Part II This paper attempts to explain some areas of potential improvement for the Veteran Affairs (VA) organization in a surgical department. Describe the data that needs to be collected and the tools to be use. Also, it will be identified and compared the types of information collected based on the different tools used. Presenting the Quality Improvements (QI) tools needed to accomplish the goal and describe the information obtained from it. In addition, establish how are these tools helpful for the health care organizations. Areas of Potential Improvements for the Organization The areas to be considered are; on- call Practices, preoperative personnel are assigned designated times, in addition to their regular work hours, to be available on an “on-call” basis for unplanned , urgent, emergent procedures or to provide care for patients whose procedure run past schedule time periods. Call hours may vary from four hours or more. Actual hours worked during the call period are unpredictable and can range from 30 minutes to the entire length of the call period. A large body of research exists about fatigue and sleep deprivation and their effect on performance. Research also suggest that work periods of 12 hours or more are associated with higher probability of making an error and increase in risk-taking behaviors. The Time-Out: While technologies and other innovations have advanced health care, these advancements have also led to failures in the delivery...
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