Considering the guidelines for constructing questionnaires provided in Chapter 1

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Considering the guidelines for constructing questionnaires provided in Chapter 13 of the textbook, evaluate the following questions. How should each be revised so that it can be included in a questionnaire?

1.What is your age? ___

2.Which of the following is most important to you when you select housing?  
___ Location
___ Proximity to school
___ Price
___ Size
___ Number of rooms

3.Do you think that companies should block employee access to inappropriate websites that cause wasted time at work?  
Yes or No

4.What percentage of new start-up companies failed in Michigan last year?

5.Do you think it takes a long time for the average start-up firm to secure financing?

6.Banks should set aside more funds for start-up companies because they are so important to the economy.                        
__ agree        __ no opinion        __ disagree

Explanation / Answer

1. Relevancy to the subject of problem.

Q2 is not recommended, as this question has no relevance to the current topic.

2. Scaling

Interrogative Survey question be followed with 5 or more options. Example: Strongly Agree, Agree, No opinion, disagree and strongly disagree.

Hence Q5 and Q6 should follow this rule.

3. When we ask percentage, it conditionally asks his to write a random number or a near value.

Hence in these cases, we need to provide options as

A) 0 - 10% - Very low

B) 11-35% - Low

C) 36 - 50% - Average

D) 51-75% - High

E) 76-100% - Very high

Q1 and Q4 did not follow these, hence it should be revised.

Q3 does not need any revision.

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