Re: NativeNet survey proposal (PLEASE READ)
Maureen Korp (mkorp@acadvm1.uottawa.ca)
Wed, 6 May 1992 23:49:07 EDT
Dr. Baldwin, I am glad that coding the answers to open-ended survey
questions will not pose a problem. Response rates do not necessarily
go down when a survey incorporates SOME open-ended questions into the
format. In fact, open-ended questions are particularly helpful
in studies concerned with motivation; and the analysis of the
answers can provide both quantitative and qualitative results.
That's all to the good, isn't it?
My concern was only that ethnicity not be asked in a pre-coded format.
The multi-cultural Ottawa Public School Board in its misguided effort to
do right recently presented students with a precoded ethnicity questionnaire
that offended nearly EVERYBODY...despite almost 30 possible answers.
Maureen Korp, Ph.D.
SSHRCC Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Ottawa