Chapter 5 Questions

1. What is the difference between casual and scientific inquiry?

2. What is a cross-sectional survey?

3. What is a longitudinal study?

4. What is a panel study?

5. What is a trend study?

6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of panel, longitudinal and trend studies?

7. What is meant by the terms “concept” and “operational definition”?

8. What is the difference between an open-ended and a closed-ended question?

9. What are some common errors to avoid when constructing a question?

10. What items should precede the actual questions in a questionnaire?

11. What is a contingency question?

12. How should questions be ordered?

13. What are three types of self-administered questionnaires?

14. What is meant by the term “response rate”?

15. How does the response rate depend on the manner in which questionnaires are collected?

16. What are the advantages and disadvantages of group-administered questionnaires?

17. What are the advantages and disadvantages of telephone surveys compared to interviews and mailed questionnaires?

18. What is meant by the term CATI?

19. Explain how the CATI system works.

20. What is a “probe”, and why is it used?

21. Give some examples of questions that are probes.

22. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the survey method?