These casual and real-time interactions allowed respondents to ask questions such as "Why is it so long?" "What is the question for?" and "Which category applies to me?" Answering these questions helped clarify questionnaire-related problems and minimize confusion.
Country collaborators collected questionnaires, clarified responses in the questionnaire and followed up non-respondents (generally first by mail, fax or email, with non-respondents thereafter followed up by telephone and direct contact).
Trained interviewers administered anonymous questionnaires in classes (SE) or living rooms (RYC) and underlined the anonymity of the respondents when introducing and clarifying the questionnaire.
After a factor analysis, it was clarified that the questionnaire had assessed four factors.
Queries about the meaning of specific items in the questionnaire were clarified by a member of the MacColl Institute.
The information given in the questionnaire was clarified with each subject in the ensuing interview by one of the authors (FG).
We calculated the actual calorie content of meals by linking the items on the receipt, clarified by the "item questionnaire," to the calorie content of items listed on restaurant websites.
The above-cited data help to clarify why the questionnaire survey was conducted in Caserta: this is the municipality that shows the highest percentage (55%) of ethnic ventures in Campania.
We also wanted to discover what it felt like on the ground for the average law-abiding, tax-paying, house-tending, car-driving, life-living British Muslim or indeed British Asian, being that the average Islamophobe isn't going to ask a potential victim to fill in a questionnaire clarifying their religious viewpoint before attacking them.
We also wanted to discover what it felt like on the ground for the average law-abiding, tax-paying, house-tending, car-driving, life-living British Muslim – or indeed British Asian, being that the average Islamophobe isn't going to ask a potential victim to fill in a questionnaire clarifying their religious viewpoint before attacking them.
