NRB PREPARATION ( Data Collection MCQ )

Data collection  Prepared By Nitin Acharya 

1.  Which of these is not a method of data    collection?

a. Questionnaires

b. Interviews

c. Experiments

d. Observations

2. Secondary/existing data may include which of the following?

a. Official documents

b. Personal documents

c. Archived research data

d. All of the above

3. Which of the following terms best describes data that were originally collected at an earlier time by a different person for a different purpose?

a. Primary data

b. Secondary data

c. Experimental data

d. Field notes

4. Open-ended questions provide primarily ______ data.

a.  Confirmatory data

b.  Qualitative data

c.  Predictive data

d.  None of the above

5. A census taker often collects data through which of the following?

a. Standardized tests

b. Interviews

c. Secondary data

d. Observations

6. Which of the following is not a major method of data collection?

a. Questionnaires

b. Focus groups

c. Correlational method

d. Secondary data

7. Which of the following is true concerning observation?

a. It takes less time than self-report approaches

b. It costs less money than self-report approaches

c. It is often not possible to determine exactly why the people behave as they do

d. All of the above

8. Which of the following is NOT a form of secondary data?

Representative samples.

Multiple source data.

Documentary data.

Survey-based data.

9. Which ONE is an advantage of secondary data ?

May be outdated.

Expensive.

Already exist.

May not be accurate.

10. Which ONE is a disadvantage of secondary data?

a.       Fast to obtain.

b.      Inexpensive.

c.       Addresses a fresh topic.

d.      Already exist.

Sampling

Q1: Non Sampling error is reduced by

a) Increasing Sample Size

b) Decreasing Sample Size

c) Reducing Amount of Data

d) None of these

Q2: Non Probability form of sampling is

a) Random Sampling

b) Non Random Sampling

c) Probability Sampling

d) Quota Sampling

Q3. In random sampling, the probability of selecting an item from the population is

a) Unknown

b) Known

c) Undecided

d) One

Q4. The list of all units in a population is called

a) Random sampling

b) Sampling Frame

c) Bias

d) Parameter

Q5. Which ONE of these sampling methods is a probability method?

a) Quota.

b) Judgement.

c) Convenience.

d) Simple random.

Q6. Which ONE of the following is the benefit of using simple random sampling?

a) We can calculate the accuracy of the results.

b) The results are always representative.

c) Interviewers can choose respondents freely.

d) Informants can refuse to participate.

Q7. Which ONE of the following is the main problem with using non-probability sampling techniques?

a) The expense.

b) The results are never representative.

c) Human judgement error.

d) Informants can refuse to participate.

Q8. Which ONE of the following methods is generally used in qualitative sampling?

a) Random digit dialling.

b) Quota.

c) Stratified random.

d) Simple random.