Week 4 Discussion 1: Survey Methods

Discuss the following questions then respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings. Discuss the advantages & disadvantages of face-to-face interviewing. What is necessary for the success of this method? Discuss the advantages & disadvantages of telephone interviewing. What is necessary for the success of this method? How do these survey methods compare?

When an investigator has found that interviewing is the proper data-collection technique, several ways might be used for collecting information from people (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). Face-to-face interviewing is one source for data collection. In face-to-face interviewing, selected people for sample are interviewed personally by an expert interviewer (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). ...