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Monday, January 11, 2010

STA630_Quiz # 6

STA630 (Research Methods)


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1.  Which is not a source of existing statistics?

A.  Government 

B.  International agencies

C.  Personal interviews

D.  Private sources

 

2.  Followings are the advantages of secondary data except

A.  Non-Reactivity

B.  Selective survival

C.  Low cost

D.  Spontaneity

 

3.  Following are the disadvantages of secondary data except

A.  Longitudinal analysis

B.  Sampling bias

C.  Coding difficult

D.  Incompleteness 

 

4.  The coding of the secondary data may be difficult because of 

A.  Differences in content or subject matter

B.  Lack of standardization

C.  Differences in length and format

D.  All of these

 

5.  The researcher must be concerned about the following problems while using

secondary data in research.

A.  Validity

B.  Reliability

C.  Both of these

D.  None of these

 

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1.  Validity problems occur when the researcher's theoretical definition does not

match that of the government agency or organization that collected the

information.

 

2.  Reliability problems occur when official definition or the method of collecting

Information changes over time.

 

3.  Secondary data refer to information gathered by someone other than the

researcher conducting the present study.

 

4.  Experiments are best for topics where the researcher controls a situation and

manipulates an Independent variable.

 

5.  A social indicator is any measure of wellbeing used in policy.

 

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