... real: the quality, meaning, context, or image of reality in what people actually do, not what they say they do. The advantages of a questionnaire which produces quantitative data are you do not have to pay interviewers and it is cheap to classify results. Fast and efficient analysis possible with pre-coded closed questions and answers can be easily quantified and entered straight on to computers. Also questionnaires do not normally need interviewers so you do not have the risk of the interviewer influencing the respondent's answers. Questionnaires are a lot less dangerous and contain less personal involvement even if the questionnaires are handed out by interviews compared to such things as personal observation. There will be no difference between articulate and inarticulate respondents However some problems with this are people may not fill them in properly as they are influenced of what people may think if they put their real answer or ...

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