What would be your population? What is your sampling frame?Explain what a sensitive question is, and whether it is an issue in your survey. Why or why not?
You are interested in studying whether college students who are involved in risky/deviant lifestyles affects their academic performance. To examine this relationship, you must create a survey questionnaire consisting of 15 questions.
1. What does it mean for a question to be “good?” Be specific here about all the types of questions to avoid in a survey, and why. And what steps did you take to ensure that you created “good” worded questions?
a. Explain what a sensitive question is, and whether it is an issue in your survey. Why or why not?
b. Explain what it means for a survey to be anonymous and/or confidential.
2. If you were to administer this survey to college students, what sampling approach would you use and why? Be detailed here – explain which specific type of sampling
procedure you would use and how!
a. What would be your population? What is your sampling frame?
b. Will your sampling technique allows you to generalize back to this population? Why or
why not?
c. Would sampling error be an issue? Why or why not?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using closed-ended questions? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using open-ended questions?