What are three advantages of using a closed-ended question on a survey relative to an open-ended question when it comes to analysis?
What will be an ideal response?
This question may prompt a wide array of answers and most should be found in the following list: 1. closed-ended answers easily transferred from the questionnaire to a computer for analysis, 2. closed-ended answers are easy to compare, since all responses fall into a fixed number of predetermined categories, 3. closed-ended questions may help clarify the question for the respondent, thus avoiding misinterpretations of the question and unusable answers for the researcher, 4. a disadvantage of the open-ended question is that respondents may respond too much or too little. Some may reply at great length about an issue?a time-consuming and costly problem for the researcher, 5. interviewers may err in recording a respondent’s open ended answer, 6. Recording open ended answers verbatim is tedious, 7. unstructured answers may be difficult to code, 8. interpretations of open-ended answers may vary (affecting the reliability of data), 9. processing open-ended answers may become time consuming and costly.
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