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Unit-13: Questionnaire Construction, Mailed Questionnaire

7. Impossibility of Uniform Questions: Sufficient variance is found in the nature, thought- notes
process, principles, socio-economic conditions, cultural background and education levels
of the respondents. Hence, it is difficult to create such a questionnaire which is meaningful
and practical for everyone and which can be applied on all in a universal manner. in such a
situation it is natural for the inferences to be different.
8. Deeper Study Impossible: through questionnaire, deep study of subjects cannot be done
because first, there is lack of time, second, because of the absence of investigator, information
cannot be probed and asked nor emotional inspiration may be given. Hence, through it only
rough facts and superfacial information may be gathered.
9. lack of reliability: information obtained through questionnaire are not considered to be
completely reliable because, due to the absence of investigator many a times informant is
not able to understand the questions or understands them incorrectly, answers received in
such conditions cannot be called reliable and credible.
10. Lack of Assistance of Investigator in Answering the Questions: Many times in questionnaire
method, respondent is incapable in understanding few questions, for explaining which
investigator is not present. in such a situation, answers to those questions are either left out
or are written wrongly.

13.8 Examples of Questionnaire

There are two main parts of any questionnaire, in first part information about the respondent is
collected, like his name, age, address, income, education, caste, religion, occupation etc. in second
part, questions are asked about the study problem. for e.g. we are presenting a questionnaire related
to child-crime.

Questionnaire for the study of child criminals

1. Name ______________________
2. Permanent address ______________________
3. Age ______________________
4. Caste ______________________
5. religion______________________
6. education ______________________
7. occupation ______________________
8. Monthly income ______________________
9. Marital status ______________________
Unmarried/Married/Widow/Widower/Divorce
10. What is the size of your family?

relation with the
order number Name Age education income
respondent

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