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Scales, Instruments & Techniques. Type of Data Primary Data Secondary Data. Primary Data (different methods) Observation Method Personal Interview Telephone Interview. Other Primary Data Collection Techniques Focus Group Participatory Rural Appraisal Social Auditing. Some traditional tools
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Primary Data(different methods)Observation MethodPersonal InterviewTelephone Interview
Other Primary Data Collection TechniquesFocus GroupParticipatory Rural AppraisalSocial Auditing
Some traditional tools Thurstone – Continuum scale (Normal distribution) (comparative judgment, better than…, 80%) Likert - Summated ratings (strongly agree, ……., strongly disagree) Guttman – Cumulative scaling (Guttman Scaling) Osgood - Semantic Differential Technique – Graphical representation
SCALES(order, distance, & origin)Nominal ScaleOrdinal Scale Interval Scale Ratio
Issues of Measuring variables/questionsValidityConvergent, Discriminant, NomologicalReliabilityitem-to-total correlation > 0.5, inter-item correlation > 0.3Cronbach’s alpha >= 0.7Exploratory research >= 0.6
Questionnaire DesignIdentification of research issueFormulation of questionsFormatOpen-ended questionClose-ended question
Deciding on question wordingAppropriate sequencing of questionsPre-testing of QuestionnairesReview of Questionnaire for improvementSample Questionnaire
Deciding Question Wording Vocabulary - simple, direct and familiar to all respondents Words - not have vague or ambiguous meaning Each question - single part Question – avoid biases Questions – avoid interrelated items Instructions - clear Questions - applicable to all the respondents
Appropriate Sequence of Questions First few questions - personal details Introductory questions - establish a rapport Simple and direct questions - to build an opinion Focused questions - relating to objectives and issues of research Main body - questions to obtain needed information
Selection of Telephone NumbersTelephone directory referenceRandom digit dialingSystematic random digit dialingPlus-one dialingCall outcomes / timing / reportMail Survey
Advanced Tools Bivariate Analysis Multivariate Analysis SPSS / MINITAB Structural Equation Modeling AMOS Neural Networking (MATLAB) ORIGIN Fuzzy Logic programming