Research Methods   Question 1 – What is the foremost reason for…

Research Methods

Question 1 – What is the foremost reason for the popularity of survey methods?

Question 2 – One of the most successful omnibus surveys is the ______.

Question 3 – In practice, survey questions, if misleading or unclear, can result in ______.

Question 4 – ______ questions are excellent tools for obtaining respondents’ interpretations in greater detail and can often illuminate flaws in other questions.

Question 5 – When respondents are offered explicit responses to choose from, this type of question is referred to as a ______ question.

Question 6 – Generally, research shows that the longer the reference period, the greater the ______.

Question 7 – What type of questions is this: “Do you disagree that juveniles should not be tried as adults if they commit murder?”

Question 8- Consider this question: On average, how much time do you spend on the job each week taking care of traffic violations?

Less than 1 hour

1-3 hours

3-6 hours

6-10 hours

10 hours or more

Which answer best describes the response categories?

Cont. – Question 8 – Consider this question: On average, how much time do you spend on the job each week taking care of traffic violations? Less than 1 hour 1-3 hours 3-6 hours 6-10 hours 10 hours or more   Which answer best describes the response categories?

Question 9 – When you want respondents to make only one choice, the fixed-response categories must ______.

Question 10 – ______ type responses generally ask respondents to indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with statements.

Question 11 – Fence-sitters are people who ______.

Question 12 – Respondents who choose a substantive answer even when they do not know anything about a particular question are ______.

Question 13 – When several questions are used to measure one concept, the responses may be combined to take the sum or average of the responses in order to create (n) ______.

Question 14 – A survey question used to identify a subset of respondents who then are asked other questions is known as a(n) ______.

Question 15 – Research has shown that one third of the public will provide an opinion on a proposed law they know nothing about if they are not provided with a ______ response option.

Question 16 – A self-administered survey is ______.

Question 17 – Two matters may undermine the validity of a phone survey: not ______ and not ______.

Question 18 – The difficulty with group-administered surveys is that assembling a group ______.

Question 19 – CATI is ______.

Question 20 – If financial resources are available, ______ is often the best survey design

Question 21 – Electronic surveys have become increasingly useful because of growth in the ______.

Question 22 – The most important consideration in comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the four survey designs is ______.

Question 23 – If a survey could possibly have any harmful effects for the respondents, these should be ______.

Question 24 – The researcher may minimize respondents’ distress by ______.

Question 25 – A survey question used to identify a subset of respondents who then are asked other questions is a(n) ______ question.

Question 26 – The unique combination of questions created in a survey by filter questions and contingent questions are ______ patterns.

Question 27 – Questions asking for information such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, income, or religion are known as ______ questions.

Question 28 – Most surveys now include the option of ______ so those with mixed race/ethnic backgrounds can be identified.

Question 29 – No questionnaire should be considered ready for use until it has ______.

Question 30 – To avoid confusion, the U. S. Census Bureau adopted the following response categories for the variable ‘marital status’ ______.