Grace Mellaine Castillo

BSN 3-1

Worksheet 3 Unit 2. Data Collection

Analyze the different methods in data collection (Face-to-face interview, Telephone interviews, etc.).
Tabulate the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Methods used in Data Collection

Methods Advantages Disadvantages

Face-to-face interview Quantitative  It provides flexibility to  Interviews can

Telephone interview
the interviewers deliver biased
 The interview has a responses
better response rate  Most carefully vet
than mailed questions, the respondent’s
and the people who ability before
cannot read and write investing time in the
can also answer the recruitment process
questions. and interview
 Body language and process
facial expressions are  Most carefully vet
more clearly identified the respondent’s
and understood ability before
 Allow for more in- investing time in the
depth data collection recruitment process
and comprehensive and interview
understanding process
Quantitative  Are more cost effective  Respondents
and easier to conduct have to actually
than F2F interviews answer the call and
 Can deliver similar can hang up at any
quality data time
 Multiple points of view  Behavior and
can be gathered body language cannot
through multiple be observed
interviews  Interviews tend
 Interviews can be to be shorter than F2F
interviews
 conducted over a  Cannot use any
wider geographic visual aids to assist in
scope, even globally the interviewing

Computer-assisted Quantitative  The face-to-face  It is a relatively

personal interviewing setting allows the expensive means of
(CAPI) interviewer to capture interviewing.
verbal and non-verbal  In comparison to web
feedback. interviewing it can be
 Personal interviewing more time
allows for interviews consuming to gather
of longer duration. data.
Interviews of 45  Interviews take
minutes or more are longer to complete.
not uncommon.  Bias may occur with
 Modern devices can sensitive questions
record audio feedback which the
from respondent, track respondent does not
GPS location and want to answer in
allows pictures to be person.
taken of the interview,
thus adding to the
quality of the data.
 There is no need to
transcribe the results
into a computer form.
The computer program
can be constructed so
as to place the results
directly in a format
that can be read by
statistical analysis
programs such as PSPP
or DAP.
 The presence of an
interviewer helps
when probing for
spontaneous
awareness of certain
topics.
 The interviewer can
 verify that the
respondent answering
the questions is the
person that needs to
be interviewed.
Paper-pencil Quantitative  Does not require  Difficult to use logic
questionnaires tablets/mobile phones branches/skip logic
to complete the survey based on participant
which reduces responses as the
technological paper survey can't
investment needed. dynamically change.
 Easy to distribute the  Requires human
survey across large labor to review
pool of respondents. responses that have
 Surveys can be mailed low confidence (e.g.
by post. illegible handwriting,
 Suitable for invalid responses) or
respondents that are responses are not
not technology savvy valid based on the
(e.g. older people, set rules.
disabled people,  High costs for
children) and printing and possibly
surveying people in dispatch
developing countries  Large amount of
where technologies work involved in
are not widely transcribing the data
accessible (especially
handwritten free
texts)
 Low response rate (in
extreme cases only
five per cent)

Web-based Quantitative  The low cost and  The lack of a trained

questionnaires overall convenience of interviewer to clarify
online surveys bring in and probe can lead
a high response. to less reliable data.
Respondents get to  People often take
answer questions on surveys because
their own schedule at they're promised a
a pace they choose. reward at the end,
 Collecting data doesn't resulting in them not
 have to break the bank accurately
anymore. There are contributing to your
plenty of websites and study.
platforms that make Certain populations are
creating your survey less likely to have
fast and affordable. internet access and to
 Respondents' answers respond to online
store automatically so questionnaires. Drawing
you get results at your samples is harder based
fingertips in no time. on email addresses or
This turns analyzing website visitations.
your results into
effortless and
immediate action.

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