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Earn 100

Explain the merits and demerits of the Enumeration Method for primary data collection.

Important Questions on Collection of Data and Sampling Methods

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When the field of enquiry is vast, Personal Contact Direct method is more expensive, time-consuming and cumbersome in primary data collection.
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Adekunle is investigating the number of emails people receive at work.

He makes the prediction: People get more emails on Mondays than on Fridays.

How can Adekunle collect data to test his predication?

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The shortcoming of this indirect method is genuineness and accuracy of the information, as it completely depends on the third party.

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Describe the personal contact direct method of primary data collection.
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A gym manager interviews some members to investigate how they use the gym. The manager interviews 10 members. Explain why this sample is too small.
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The information collected through Personal Contact Direct method is normally more accurate because interviewer can clear doubts of the informants about certain questions and thus obtain correct information.

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A gym manager interviews some members to investigate how they use the gym. What are the disadvantages of interviewing everyone who uses the gym?
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A company investigates the success of a telephone helpline.

A survey of callers using the telephone helpline are asked the question:

Was the service you received helpful? Please circle one number.

Not helpful at all 1 2 3 4 5 Very helpful

What is an advantage of asking the question in this way?

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The information about the respondent is collected by interviewing the third party who knows the respondent well is known as indirect method of primary data collection.
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Describe the Telephone Interviewing and Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing direct method of primary data collection.
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A restaurant manager asks customers to fill in an online questionnaire after they have had a meal. Write down two possible predictions the restaurant could test. You have the results of this question from 65 customers. How can you analyse the results?
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In which method of primary data collection, the information is collected by interviewing the third party who knows the respondent well?

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A teacher asks learners to estimate the number of sweets in a jar. She makes two predictions:

  • The estimates of the boys will be too big.
  • The estimates of the girls will be too small.

How can she collect the data?

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A gym manager interviews some members to investigate how they use the gym. How could the manager choose a sample of 50 members to interview?
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Represent the union of two sets by Venn diagram for each of the following.

X={x | x is a prime number between 80 and 100}

Y={y | y is an odd number between 90 and 100}

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Here is a question from a questionnaire.The questionnaire is given to people who stayed at a hotel.

How clean was your room? Circle one number.  1 2 3 4 5 

What is missing from the question?

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A restaurant manager asks customers to fill in an online questionnaire after they have had a meal. Write down two possible predictions the restaurant could test. Why is this a good way to collect the data?