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Obtain Data
Advantages Disadvantages
1-Inexpensive 1-Data are not always easy accessible
2-Permits examination of past trends ( because 2- Ethical issues regarding confidentiality may
all cancer incidences are recorded in cancer arise
registry, it is easy to see cancer rate-trend )
*Patients info should be given with high privacy
without any personal data ( name , ID number )
3-Information may be incomplete and inaccurate
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2- Observing
• It involves systematic selection, watching and recording behavior and characteristics
of living beings or objects
• Observations of Human Behavior are used on small scale and can be:
-Participant observation -Non-participant observation
3-Interviewing
❖ It is oral questioning of respondents, either individually or as a group, face to face
or over phone
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2-Permits clarification by respondents (easily 2-The presence of the interviewer can influence
understanding questions) the responses
-if there is any misunderstanding you can clarify -you may get embarrassed and your answers
it at that moment will be far from reality
3-Higher response rate than questionnaires
-you can't leave the question empty as you do in
written questions
-you answer better in this case
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Types of Surverys
❖ Surveys Involving Questionnaires
- Often, someone simply counts or measures the sampled items and records
the results
- An example is sampling a company’s inventory of parts to estimate the total
inventory value
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