Question

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Answer 1

Surveys plays a great role in making out polls for getting a brighter view on the elections and who is having more polling percentage and the wining percentage. They may be differing in many ways and the polls can be wrong which is because of many reasons one important of them is that they may change the mind before polling and they may be influenced by other or the last-minute incentives of the government.

Surveys can be of many ways at first people used to go to every house and ask them about their opinion and used to take survey which includes of many questions. After the revolution of telecommunication, the telephonic survey came into picture and now because of the revolution of internet and online surveys and online polls came into existence there are many limitations of telephonic survey. Four of them are

1. Cost of maintenance of staff and interviewers and their training.
2. Availability of the people as some are not present in homes and while others are busy with works and while others don’t have the patience for the survey.
3. Response time is very slow and the polling time in which we are targeted at will take more time which is not that much sure of it
4. Quality of information is very low as they wont be genuine information of it.

2ANS)

Volunteering is another type of survey which the old method is but can be done accurately and which needs the resources and the genuine responses. This will be affected in many ways in the gender as women will make out more surveys and genuine as they are rich in patience and pleasing manner which will attract more and more people to take the survey. Religion also matters where for one region if u survey also the answer is fixed based on caste and creed. The quick and better and genuine response we will get in educated region.

Advantages of FTF survey: -

1. Genuine survey
2. Resources will be more as we get many people for survey
3. Response time will be quick

Dis-Advantages of FTF Survey : -

1. Cost of training and maintenance will be more
2. More negative response

         Advantages of telephonic survey : -

1. More genuine response
2. Versatility and flexible
3. Not fixed to one region
4. More accurate response

        Dis-advantages of telephonic survey

1. Cost of training and recruiting and maintenance is much more
2. Late response

Advantages of mail questionnaire survey: -

1. Lest cost of maintenance
2. More feasible and more flexible
3. Not confined to single region

Dis-advantages of mail questionnaire survey: -

1. Late response
2. Very view number will take the survey

Advantages of web-based survey: -

1. Lest cost of maintenance
2. More feasible and more flexible
3. Not confined to single region
4. Many ways of getting sources
5. Unlimited resources
6. Unlimited ways of approach
7. Faster response

            Dis-advantages of web-based survey: -

1. Late response
2. Un-predictive survey
3. Cant estimate the people who take the survey
4. Not genuine response