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Chapter No 7: Data Collection Multiple Choice Questions SUBJECT:Business Research Methods PREPARED BY:Maryum Saleem

This document provides a chapter on data collection methods with 22 multiple choice questions. The questions cover a range of data collection topics including methods like interviews, questionnaires, observations, and secondary data. Specific question formats like open-ended questions, probes during interviews, and structured vs unstructured interviews are also addressed. Data collection tools like computer assisted interviewing software and videoconferencing are discussed.

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Chapter No 7: Data Collection Multiple Choice Questions SUBJECT:Business Research Methods PREPARED BY:Maryum Saleem

This document provides a chapter on data collection methods with 22 multiple choice questions. The questions cover a range of data collection topics including methods like interviews, questionnaires, observations, and secondary data. Specific question formats like open-ended questions, probes during interviews, and structured vs unstructured interviews are also addressed. Data collection tools like computer assisted interviewing software and videoconferencing are discussed.

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CHAPTER NO 7: DATA COLLECTION

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

SUBJECT:Business Research Methods


PREPARED BY:Maryum Saleem
1.Which of these is not a method of data collection:
a. Questionnaries
b.Interviews
c. experiments.
d.Observations

2. Secondary/existing data may include which of the following:


a. Official documents
b. Personal documents
c. Archived research data
d. All of the above

3. Which of the following terms best describes data that were originally collected at an earlier time by a
different person for a different purpose:
a. Primary data
b. Secondary data
c. Experimental data
d. Field notes

4. Open-ended questions provide primarily ______ data.


a.  Confirmatory data
b.  Qualitative data
c.  Predictive data
d.  None of the above

5. Qualitative observation is usually done for exploratory purposes; it is also called ___________
observation.
a. Structured
b. Naturalistic
c. Complete
d. Probably
 
6. Which of the following is not one of the six major methods of data collection that are used by
educational researchers:
a.  Observation
b.  Interviews
c.  Questionnaires
d.  Checklists

7. The type of interview in which the specific topics are decided in advance but the sequence and wording
can be modified during the interview is called:
a. The interview guide approach
b. The informal conversational interview
c. A closed quantitative interview
d. The standardized open-ended interview

8. Which one of the following in not a major method of data collection:


a. Questionnaires
b. Interviews
c. Secondary data
d. All of the above are methods of data collection

9. A question during an interview such as “Why do you feel that way is known as a:
a. Probe
b. Filter question
c. Response
d. Pilot

10. A census taker often collects data through which of the following:
a. Standardized tests
b. Interviews
c. Secondary data
d. Observations

11. The researcher has secretly placed him or herself in the group that is being studied. This researcher
may be which of the following:
a. A complete participant
b. An observer-as-participant
c. A participant-as-observer
d. None of the above

12. Which of the following is not a major method of data collection:


a. Questionnaires
b. Focus groups
c. Correlational method
d. Secondary data

13. Which type of interview allows the questions to emerge from the immediate context or course of
things:
a. Interview guide approach
b. Informal conversational interview
c. Closed quantitative interview
d. Standardized open-ended interview

14.A data collection method in which the researcher does not interact with the subject being studied is
called:
a. An unbrotuivse
b. Field research
c. Qualitative analysis
d. Content analysis.
15. An _______ is the way of face to face conversation between the interviewer and the
interviewee, where the interviewer seeks replies from the interviewee for choosing a potential
human resource.
a.Analysis
b.Questionare
c. Interview
d.None of above
.
16. A ________ interview is a type of interview in which the interviewer asks a particular set of
predetermined questions.
a. Unstructured interview
b. Structured interview
c. Online interview
d. Simple interview.

17. The ______ interview is a type of interview in which the interviewer asks questions that
are not prepared in advace.

a.Online interview

b.Unstructured interview.

c. Face to face interview

d. Videoconferncing.

18_______is that the researcher can adapt the questions as necessary ,clarify doubts and ensure that
responces are properly understood.
a.Software interview
b.Indirect interview
c.Telephone interview
d.Face to face interview

19.________ software also prevents interviews from asking wrong questions in the wrong sequence .
a. Computer assisted interviewing
b. Group interviewing
c.Simple interviewing
d. Direct interviewing

20.Two types of computer assisted interviewing:


a. VCS and VTS
b. CAPI
c.CATI and CAPI
d. None of above

21.______ group consists typically of eight members with a moderator leading the discussions on a
particular topic, or product .
a. Main group
b.Focus group
c. Focal group
d, None of above.

22._______ is a technology that allows users in different locations to hold face to face meeting
without having to move to a single location togeather.
a. Face to face interview
b.Telephone interview
c.Videoconferncing
d.Group discussion
.

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