Questionnaires

Evaluation

Questionnaires are largely advantageous due to their practicalities. They offer a cheap method of research, and are largely accessible when sent out via postal services. Due to being quantitative data, the answers obtained from a questionnaire are easy to analyse, and are, therefore, generalizable to the wider population. However, questionnaires lack validity as they mainly use closed-questions which means that answers collected do not offer a great deal of detail. Questionnaires, also, run the risk of the imposition problem as the researcher could write the questions in a way that imposes their own view on the participant. Consequently, the researcher is receiving answers that agree with their views, but not the views of the participant.