Portfolio: Online Survey & Report on Statistical Analysis
Goal of the assignment
Submission Part 1: Online survey
- You are required to prepare an online survey, using an online questionnaire and collecting data, on Personal Vehicles in United States
- First, you will prepare the methodological design, defining the population, the sampling approach and the online questionnaire structure, as well as the data analysis procedures (descriptive statistics, in accordance to unit content). The online questionnaire must include questions on socio-demographic elements, purchasing preferences and other you may find useful to draw a consumer profile. All types of variables quantitive and qualitive must be used, with a minimum number of 20 questions included in the questionnaire and a minimum of 50 answers.
- Next, you will configure the online questionnaire using a platform of your choice (as long as it allows exporting the data at the end of the process, in Excel or .csv format) and perform the pilot test and sampling, collecting at least 50 valid answers from the targeted population. You will register the dates of pilot test and the data collection interval, as well as the link to the online questionnaire and the final size of the sample.
- Following this, you will export the data into an Excel report, perform data validation and eliminate missing answers. This will be your working dataset, which you will use to develop Submission Part 2. This Excel file must be submitted, as submission Part 1.
Submission Part 2: Report on Statistical Analysis
- You are required to use the dataset obtained from Submission Part 1.
- Preliminary, you will import the dataset into JASP or similar statistical software, and perform all the statistical tests required for each variable, according to the type of variable, namely descriptive statistics and
cross-tabulations.
- Next, you will prepare the report, in accordance with the structure presented in the Assignment description, including the tables and graphs obtained from JASP or similar statistical software in the correct sections of the report, and interpret the results. In all your work, you must duly consider the content of the units.
You will need to utilise sufficient breadth, depth and information to enable you to produce a 1,500 words report.
Tips for a successful Report
- Scientific writing and formal elements are important. Your report must be produced in a text-processing editor (e.g. Microsoft Word or equivalent), using other applications to create graphs, whenever
- Use bullet points where appropriate and avoid large chunks of unbroken
Title Page – title of report, your full name, Consumer Market XXX that has been assigned to you in Week 1
- Introduction
- Methodology: Survey preparation
2.1. Population and sampling
2.2. Questionnaire
2.3. Data collection procedure
2.4. Data analysis: Descriptive Statistics and Cross-tabulation Statistics
- Results
3.1. Data collection (when and where was collected the data)
3.2. Pilot test results
3.3. Descriptive statistics
3.4. Cross-tabulation analysis
- Conclusions
- Bibliography (if applicable)
Appendices (all graphs and tables obtained from the statistical software)
