Where participants are asked a set of questions about themselves and to report answers. Using qestionnaires.
Strengths and Weaknesses of questionnaires:
- Quick and easy to complete and produce
- Easy to anayls closed questions
- Open questions can give qualitative data, their opinions
- Designed carefully, with a specific topic in mind
- Can send in the post, targets large amounts of people
- Boring to complete
- Demand characteristics and social desirability
- Cost
- Needs alot of data to get good results
- Can be too personal
- People may not understand questions
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