SOCI 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Likert Scale

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology (Arts)
• Course: SOCI 211
• Professor: Yasmin Bayer

Document Summary

A document containing questions and other types of items designed to solicit information appropriate to analysis. Questionnaires are used primarily in survey research, but also in experiments, field research, and other modes of observation. What are the two forms of questionnaire: questions and statements: helps researcher to determine the extent to which respondent hold a particular attitude or perspective. Likert scale: open ended and closed ended questions: open-ended questions are questions to which respondents are asked to provide their own answers. Qualitative in depth interviewing relies heavily on open ended questions, but they are sometimes used in other forms of data collection such as telephone surveys and self administered questionnaires. Ex: what do you feel is the most important issue facing canada today? and be provided with a space to write in the answer. Closed ended questions are questions to which the respondent is asked to select an answer from among a list provided by the researcher.