Statistics assignment
Research Design Questions
1. What is the overarching question that Clare is seeking to answer?
2. What is the population of interest to Clare?
3. What do you need to know to answer the question and what methods would you use to answer it?
4. What theories help you to understand the potential answers to the question? Are there issues that the theories do not address?
5. What hypotheses are suggested by the question and how would you test them?
6. What comparisons would you make in order to answer Clare’s question and test your hypotheses?
7. Identify and define potentially relevant variables. Are they quantitative or qualitative (or both)? How would you measure these variables?
8. What unit of analysis would you use (individual, family, household, etc.)?
9. What research method(s) would you use (experiments, survey research, existing data research, etc.)?
10. What sort of data would be useful (cross-sectional, trend, panel etc.)
11. How would you collect data?
12. How would you conduct data analysis?
13. What constraints or problems (budgetary, political, etc.) could your research face?
I have to answer 13 research design questions based on info provided in a case study
