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Data Collection Methods Guide

The document outlines various data collection methods, including telephone, observation, experimental, report, mail questionnaire, and administration enumerate methods, detailing their advantages and disadvantages. Key advantages include speed, personal interaction, and natural data collection, while disadvantages highlight issues like limited sample sizes and potential biases. Each method has unique strengths and weaknesses that impact their effectiveness in research.

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Data Collection Methods Guide

The document outlines various data collection methods, including telephone, observation, experimental, report, mail questionnaire, and administration enumerate methods, detailing their advantages and disadvantages. Key advantages include speed, personal interaction, and natural data collection, while disadvantages highlight issues like limited sample sizes and potential biases. Each method has unique strengths and weaknesses that impact their effectiveness in research.

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Advantage of Telephone method

i. It is faster way of collecting data

ii. Can be used to Mach samples over a wide geographic area

iii. More personal in nature and conducted by skilled and experience

i. Rapid data collection

ii. Lower cost

iii. Anonymity

iv. Large scale accessibility

Disadvantages

1. Lack of usual materials

2. Limited potential respondent

3. Limited open-ended question

Observation method Advantages

1. Domestic: we can collect data at the time they occur. The observation does not have to ask

people about their behavior and import from others

2. Natural environment: data collect in an observed phenomena as they occur in their natural

settings

3. Longitude analysis: since the observation is possible to be conducted in a natural setting, the

observatory can conduct his or her study over a much longer period than with either the

survey on experiment.

Disadvantages

1. Lack of control: despite the advantage as achieved from the natural environment, the

observation study, however has little control over extraneous variable that may affect the

data.

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2. Difficulties in quantification: measurement in observation studies generally takes the

form of obscene

3. Smallness in sample size

Experimental method

Advantage

1 It provide conclusions that aim specific

2 Data can be duplicated

3 It allow cause and effect to be determined

4 It can be combined with other date method

Disadvantage

1 Result are highly subjective due to t possibility of human crown

2 It can create situations that are not meristic

3 It is a time consuming process

Report method

Advantage

1 Monitoring operations

2 Controlling

3 Guide decision

Disadvantage

1 Report can be biased

2 It is time consuming

3 Expensive

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Mail questionnaire

Advantage

1 Sample is not limited to access to technology such as phone on internet

2 Participant are able to think about the in response

3 No interview effort on participant response

Disadvantage

1 possibility of question misinterpretation

2 difficult to formulate a sentient of question whose meanings are crystal clean to every

meander

3 The investigator may know exactly what is meant by a question but the differently

Administration Enumerate Advantage

1 Reduces error caused by transposing on mistyping numbers

2 Easy to change values in the future

3 It is more clearer and readable

Disadvantage

1 It is easy to make mistake for a user detained type

2 It is use for variable type a compiler will not do ay to help restricted

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