{"id":2478,"date":"2023-07-03T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T07:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/?page_id=2478"},"modified":"2023-09-12T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:00:01","slug":"collecting-data-methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/collecting-data-methods\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Data Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>FACE TO FACE PERSONAL INTERVIEWS<br \/>\n<\/strong>Face-to-face interviews are the standard method of collecting data in empirical social research. These surveys are conducted in households throughout the country, where we seek the &#8220;suitable&#8221; person to interview according to the survey&#8217;s requirements. Questionnaires used in this method may be complex, and an interview may take a long time to complete. This methodology is appropriate when trying to define a behavior and not just record public opinion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS<br \/>\n<\/strong>Conducting telephone opinion surveys is a widely used method of data collection. The telephone data collection method has three main advantages: (1) It requires significantly less time to carry out, (2) It gives a better geographical and demographic coverage (sample dispersion) and reaches households or entire areas where the process of face-to-face interviews is often prohibitive, and (3) In a world where phones are common to every individual, it does not create biases of population underrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRES<br \/>\n<\/strong>The current technological infrastructure of the Center offers the possibility of processing complex phone and\/or online research using specialized software such as NIPO CATI &amp; CAWI. (www.niposoftware.com).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS<br \/>\n<\/strong>The technique of personal interview using an unstructured questionnaire explores the perceptions, motivations and feelings of the respondent, in depth. It is particularly suitable for specific &#8216;sensitive&#8217; issues.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Structured<\/li>\n<li>Semi-structured<\/li>\n<li>In-depth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>FOCUS GROUPS<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Focus groups technique is highly recommended when conducting a group discussion that involves a small number of people (usually 8-12). Discussions are &#8220;focused&#8221; in two ways: first the discussion aims at exploring a particular sub-group of the population, , and second, these discussions are focused on a specific and predetermined theme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>OBSERVATION<br \/>\n<\/strong>Observation is made under defined conditions with systematic data collection. It can be applied in various ways: structured or open, participatory or non-participatory, in the laboratory or in the field. It allows for an immediate recording of behavior, in contrast to other techniques which are based on participants&#8217; self-reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACE TO FACE PERSONAL INTERVIEWS Face-to-face interviews are the standard method of collecting data in empirical social research. These surveys are conducted in households throughout the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 15:00:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2478\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/pakepe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}