A researcher wants to study the impact of average hour of study in a week on CGPA of MBA students in virtual university of Pakistan. He focused on specifically the students specialized in finance. The total of number of MBA students in VU is an example of which of the following?

• A) Element
• B) Population
• C) Sample
• D) Target population

_______ means the verbal prompts made by fieldworker when the respondent must be motivated to communicate

• A) In house training
• B) Probing
• C) Recording the responses
• D) Verbal communication

All of the following are weaknesses of telephone interviewing EXCEPT:

• A) Absence of Face-to-Face Contact
• B) Absence of visual medium
• C) Response Rate is lower than for Personal Interviews
• D) Call backs are difficult

Causal research answers which of the following types of question:

• A) Where
• B) Why
• C) Who
• D) What

Which of the following is an example of a dilemma that might face feminist business researchers conducting qualitative interviews with women?

• A) What data to use when publishing findings?
• B) What role to adopt when interviewing male managers?
• C) How to overcome the issue of false consciousness?
• D) How many female employees should be interviewed for a representative sample?

If the problem statement is focused on how to augment knowledge sharing behavior of knowledge workers, the unit of analysis would be:

• A) Organization
• B) Individual
• C) Group
• D) Group of organizations

Call backs are used as a major means to reduce____________

• A) Response bias
• B) Non-response error
• C) Negative responses
• D) Response rate

Which of the following can be referred as a Reputational sampling?

• A) Snowball Sampling
• B) Purposive Sampling
• C) Quota Sampling
• D) Convenience Sampling

A process of changing data from their original form to a format that is more suitable to perform a data analysis is called as______________

• A) Information transformation
• B) Information creation
• C) Data transformation
• D) Data creation

Which of the following is pivotal in capturing accurate variables researcher wants to study?

• A) Identifying the area of research
• B) Selection of respondents
• C) Question design and development
• D) Selection of sampling techniques

If the research questions are concerned with finding out who, what, where, when, or how much, then the study is _______________.

• A) Exploratory study.
• B) Descriptive study.
• C) An explanatory study.
• D) Qualitative study.

Which of the following is a research method that allows a researcher to get information about a large number of subjects relatively inexpensively and easily?

• A) Case study
• B) Survey
• C) Laboratory observation
• D) Personal Interviewing

The list of all units in a population is called

• A) Random sampling
• B) Parameter
• C) Statistic
• D) Sampling Frame

Which of the following is the least reliable sampling design but normally cheapest and easiest to conduct?

• A) Purposive sampling
• B) Convenience sampling
• C) Snowball sampling
• D) Quota sampling

In which of the following sampling methods People are available such as volunteer or can be easily recruited?

• A) Simple random sampling
• B) Systematic sampling
• C) Cluster sampling
• D) Convenience sampling

A master plan which specifies the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the data is called:

• A) Research design
• B) Research feedback
• C) Research budget
• D) Research type

How often do you watch TV drama?
Occasionally
Frequently
Regularly
I do not watch TV drama

This question when asked from the respondents was unable to capture the required variable. What is the problem associated with it?

• A) It is a leading question
• B) It is a loaded question
• C) Proper sequence is missing
• D) This is an ambiguous question

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways to increase response rate for a questionnaire?

• A) Attractive cover letter
• B) Remuneration
• C) Proper timing
• D) Large number of questions

The final stage in the coding process is

• A) Production coding
• B) Code construction
• C) Data entry
• D) Data cleaning

________ is a measure in which the researcher captures the direction of a variable construct.

• A) Collapsing
• B) Index
• C) Combining
• D) Scale