SOC 232 Lecture Notes - Survey Data Collection, Laziness
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Email surveys: embedded in the email, easier to answer, embedded in attachments, can have more elaborate and attractive formatting. Web surveys: respondents go to a website to complete the questionnaire. Advantages and disadvantages of online surveys compared to mailed questionnaires: Participants record their feelings, perceptions, actions, etc. on a form shortly after they occur. Participants should be given explicit instructions on how to complete the diary, the time periods for recording responses, and the types of experiences to be recorded. Structured" like a regular questionnaire with closed questions, or free text" experiences written down without fixed responses, like answers to open" questions: structured: at ____ time what exercise have you done/ Advantages over interviews and questionnaires: fairly accurate data, re: frequency or time spent on behaviours of interest, fairly accurate data about sequencing of behaviours, good for getting data on sensitive matters, e. g. , sexual practices. Disadvantages: more expensive than personal interviews, attrition: people may tire of using them.
