Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Data sources and measurement scales
- Sources
- Primary
- Collected by
researchers
Anmerkungen:
- Eg interview, observation, action research, case studies, life histories, questionnaires, ethnographic research, longitudinal studies
- Secondary
- Data that already exists
Anmerkungen:
- Eg Previous research, Official statistics, Mass media products, Diaries, Letters, Government reports, Web information, Historical data and information
- Measurement Scales
- Nominal
Anmerkungen:
- Ordinal
Anmerkungen:
- Order, measurements of non-numeric concepts - Eg satisfaction, happiness etc
- Interval
Anmerkungen:
- Know differences between each value - Space between - Eg weight, temperature. No such thing as zero temperature
- Ratio
Anmerkungen:
- Tells us order, exact value between units and has absolute zero - Eg height, weight.