Discuss the characteristics of survey method.
(i) A large number of people i.e. 30 to 2000 and an area village, town, city, a province or entire nation are incorporated in survey. Such decision is made on the basis of context and kind of topic.
(ii) A fixed set of questions is prepared so that differential calculation is avoided.
(iii) Questions may be asked by an investigator in person where they are read out to the respondent and his/her answers are noted down by the investigator. Alternatively, the questionnaire is made commensurating with the topic of research and it is handed over to the respondents who then fill it up themselves and give it back to researchers.
(iv) Survey can cover a lot of people so that the results are truly representative to the relevant group or population.
