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Interview
Observation * Between the interviewer and the interviewee or respondent
* Does not entail personal contact * Convenient to talk to the respondents directly
* Counting the number of vehicles crossing an intersection every hour * Determine whether people were happy with the way they were treated by
sales staff.
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Questionnaire
Databases
* A predetermined set of questions given to a number of respondents to complete.
* Organized lists of data Example: the list of learners at your school is a kind of database
* Appropriate for getting information from people that are spread over a wide area and that * Can be computerized, books or paper filing systems
are not easy to contact face-to-face * A big advantage of these is that the data is already organized and is easy to access.
* Should have a short explanation of what your research is about

* The national population census for South Africa, which takes place every ten years
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