University of the Assumption

College of Engineering and Architecture

Department of Architecture
Unisite Subdivision, Del Pilar, City of San Fernando, Pampanga

Thesis Title Proposals Presented to the

Faculty of Architecture
College of Engineering and Architecture
UNIVERSITY OF THE ASSUMPTION
Pampanga

In Partial Fulfillment of the

Requirements for the Subject
RESEARCH METHODS FOR ARCHITECTURE (PCARRES1)
And for the Degree
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

Presented to:
Ar. Joseph Edward Dela Cruz

YJOS GRACE L. LISING

OCTOBER 2022

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 DATA COLLECTION METHOD

Primary Data Collection Methods

● Primary data is collected from first-hand involvement and isn't utilized within the
past.
● The information assembled by primary data collection strategies are particular to
the research’s thought process and exceedingly accurate.
● Primary data collection strategies can be partitioned into two categories:
quantitative methods and qualitative methods.

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 Quantitative Methods:

● Quantitative procedures for advertisement, investigation and request

determination more often than not make use of factual instruments.
● In these procedures, the request is based on authentic information. These
strategies of essential information collection are by and large utilized to form
long-term figures.
● Measurable strategies are profoundly solid as the component of subjectivity is
least in these strategies.

Time Series Analysis

● The term time arrangement alludes to a successive arrangement of values of a
variable, known as a drift, at break even with time intervals.
● Utilizing designs, an organization can anticipate the request for its items and
administrations for the anticipated time.

Smoothing Techniques
● In cases where the time arrangement needs critical patterns, smoothing methods
can be utilized.
● They dispose of an irregular variety from the verifiable request.
● It makes a difference in recognizing designs and request levels to gauge future
requests.
● The foremost common strategies utilized in smoothing request determining
methods are the basic moving normal strategy and the weighted moving normal
strategy.

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Barometric Method
● Too known as the driving pointers approach, analysts utilize this strategy to
conjecture future patterns based on current improvements.
● When the past occasions are considered to anticipate future occasions, they act
as driving pointers.

Qualitative Methods:
● Subjective strategies are particularly valuable in circumstances when chronicled
information isn't available.
● Or there's no need for numbers or numerical calculations. Subjective inquiry is
closely related with words, sounds, feeling, feelings, colors, and other
components that are non-quantifiable.
● These strategies are based on involvement, judgment, intuition, guess, feeling,
etc.
● Quantitative strategies don't give the rationale behind participants’ reactions,
often don’t reach underrepresented populaces, and span long periods to gather
the information.

Surveys
● Overviews are utilized to gather information from the target group of onlookers
and assemble experiences into their inclinations, suppositions, choices, and input
related to their items and administrations.
● Most study programs frequently have a wide run of address sorts to select. Once
the information is collected, the study computer program can create different
reports and run analytics calculations to find covered up experiences.
● A study dashboard can allow you the measurements related to reaction rate,
completion rate, channels based on socioeconomics, trade and sharing options,
etc. You'll be able maximize the exertion went through on online information
collection by coordination overview builder with third-party apps.

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Polls
● Surveys include one single or different choice address. When it is required to
have a speedy beat of the audience’s assumptions, you'll be able to go for
surveys.
● Since they are short in length, it is less demanding to induce reactions from the
people.
● Similar to overviews, online surveys, as well, can be implanted into different
stages. Once the respondents reply to the address, it can appear how they stand
compared to others’ reactions.

Interviews
● In this strategy, the questioner inquires questions either face-to-face or through
phone to the respondents.
● In face-to-face interviews, the questioner inquires about an arrangement of
questions to the interviewee in individual and notes down reactions. In case it
isn't attainable to meet the individual, the questioner can go for a telephonic
meet.
● This frame of information collection is appropriate when there are only a couple
of respondents. It is as well time-consuming and repetitive to rehash the same
handle in case there are numerous members.

Delphi Technique
● In delphi strategy, advertise specialists are given with the gauges and
presumptions of estimates made by other specialists within the industry.
● Specialists may reexamine and change their gauges and presumptions based on
the data given by other specialists. The agreement of all specialists on demand
estimates constitutes the ultimate request figure.

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Focus Groups
● In a center bunch, a little bunch of individuals, around 8-10 individuals, talk about
the common zones of the issue.
● Each person gives his experiences on the issue concerned.
● An arbitrator directs the talk among the gathered individuals. At the conclusion of
the talk, the bunch comes to an agreement.

Questionnaire
● A survey could be a printed set of questions, either open-ended or closed-ended.
● The respondents are required to reply based on their knowledge and encounter
with the issue concerned.
● The survey could be a portion of the study, while the questionnaire’s end-goal
may or may not be an overview.

Secondary Data Collection Methods

● Auxiliary information is the information that has been utilized within the past.
● The analyst can get information from the information sources, both inside and
outside, to the organization.
● The auxiliary information collection strategies, as well, can include both
quantitative and subjective strategies.
● Auxiliary information is effectively accessible and thus, less time-consuming and
costly as compared to the essential information.
● Be that as it may, with the auxiliary information collection strategies, the realness
of the information accumulated cannot be confirmed.

Internal sources of auxiliary information:

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 ● Organization’s health and safety records
● Mission and vision statements
● Financial Statements
● Magazines
● Sales Report
● CRM Software
● Executive summaries

External sources of secondary data:

● Government reports
● Press releases
● Business journals
● Libraries
● Internet

CITATIONS
https://www.questionpro.com/blog/data-collection-methods/