Practical exercises

 

Practical exercises

 

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1      You have been asked to investigate the effects of increased taxation on the spending patterns of working-class families. How will you design the study using panel studies?

 

2      Prepare a complete experimental research design to study the effects of the gender of interviewers on the response rate to door-to-door surveys.

 

3          Show how you will construct and employ focus groups as a tool of data collection when studying the views of persons of ethnic origin on female police officers.




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