Data Collection and Analysis
Data Collection and Analysis
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Classification Information
• At the end of the questionnaire, a section on “
classification information” or “ personal
information” can be designed.
• Demographic items should not be presented
first on the questionnaire.
• Most of the commonly gathered classification
information include: (a) age, (b) gender, (c)
education, (d) martial status (e) family
income, (f) occupation and so on.
Cont…
• Example
Please check (✔) the appropriate category:
Age Education
-under 25 -Literate
-High School
-25-35
-36-45
The Research Interview
• Interview technique is widely used in research
for collecting primary data.
• There are different types of interviews.
Structured interview
Unstructured interview
Face-to-Face interviews
• The most common method of obtaining
survey data is the face-to-face interview.
• The interviewer talks to the respondent’s
directly.
• Interview methods are suitable in specific
situations.
• The use of either structured or unstructured
interview has to be selected.
Cont……
• The researcher has to select this method
considering the time, cost, and other practical
considerations of administration. Examples of
face-to-face interviewing methods
• In-street interviewing
• Interviewing in-colleges
• Interviewing in-home
• In-hall interviewing
• In-office interviewing
Telephone Interviews
• Telephone interview today is a
well-established technique of data collection.
• In a telephone interviewing, the interviewer
contacts respondents by telephone rather
than by mail.
• The interviewer uses a structured interview
schedule to be administered.
Cont…
• This type of interviewing is best suited when
many respondents are to be researched over a
wide geographical area and the time available
for interviews is very short.
• Questions are asked verbally, the interviewer
must be careful about the use of words.
Computer-Assisted interviewing
• Surveys and questionnaires are the most
widely implemented web-based methodology.
• The Internet can be used for the whole range
of surveys from structured questionnaire to
unstructured interviews, and even
observational studies and experimental
designs (Walliman, 2010).
Two types of computer-assisted interview
program.
• Computer-assisted telephone interviewing
(CATI).
• Computer-assisted personal interviewing
(CAPI).
Cont…
• It is quick and more accurate gathering of
information.
• The data analysis process is also much easier.
• The field costs are low.
Focus Group interview
• Focus on the certain issue and collect
maximum information from the group of
respondents.
• Interview is taken with the small group of 6 to
8 people.
• Focus groups have been extensively used in
marketing research, in political campaigning,
and as part of public policy and
communications research.
Cont….
• Recently, focus group interviews have been used
in social, health, linguistics, and environmental
research studies. Example
• Assessing the impact of advertisements before
going public.
• Developing community awareness to prevent HIV/
AIDS.
• Investigating public attitudes and sensitivities
towards growing unplanned urbanization in
Nepal.
Observation
• In observation method no questioning of or
communicating with people occurs.
• Simply watch people or situations and record
the observed data.
• Observation is the process of recognizing and
noting people, objects, and occurrences rather
than asking for information.
Cont…..
• The careful watching and recording of
somebody or something in a systematic way
to establish knowledge (Creswell, 2014).
• Observation represents a time consuming and
expensive way of gathering data.
Methods or Types of Observation
• Participant and non-participant observation.
Meaning and Definition of Data
Analysis
• Data analysis is an important stage of the
research process.
• Raw data conveys little information as such it
must, therefore, be compiled, analyzed, and
interpreted carefully before its full meaning
and implications can be understood.
Organizing and preparing Data
• The process of transforming data is called
analysis.
• Processing technique is used to make data
valid, simple and reliable.
Editing
• Editing is the first step in data processing.
• It implies checking and correcting the data
gathered from questionnaires, interviews, and
observations in a systematic way to ensure
their accuracy and completeness.
• This is the step whereby you try to eliminate
errors or points of conclusion in the raw data.
• Editing should be done as soon as possible
after the data have been collected.
Editing
The editor of data should look at each collection
form with respect to the following criteria:
Completeness- It is very common for a
questionnaire to be returned with one or
more specific questions unanswered.
This is known as item non- response.
Editing
Consistency- Each questionnaire should be
examined to determine if it is internally
consistent.
Range 3 to 10 minutes
N (sample size) 50
Frequencies
• The most widely used method of data analysis
and interpretation is frequency distribution.
• The frequency of a particular data value is the
number of times the data value occurs.
• For example, if four students have a score of
80 in mathematics, and then the score of 80 is
said to have a frequency of 4. The frequency
of a data value is often represented by f.
Percentages
• A percentage is a common language symbol.
• One of the most useful features of the
percentage is that it can reduce everything to
a common base and thereby allow meaningful
comparisons to be made.
Mean
• The "mean" is the "average" you're used to,
where you add up all the numbers and then
divide by the number of numbers.
• The mean is the usual average, so:
(13 + 18 + 13 + 14 + 13 + 16 + 14 + 21 + 13) ÷ 9 =
15
Median
• The "median" is the "middle" value in the list of
numbers. To find the median, your numbers have
to be listed in numerical order, so you may have
to rewrite your list first.
• The median is the middle value
13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 16, 18, 21
There are nine numbers in the list, so the middle
one will be the (9 + 1) ÷ 2 = 10 ÷ 2 = 5th number:
13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 16, 18, 21
So the median is 14.
Mode
• The most frequently occurring value in a data
set
Mode -- Example