IAFF6118.15 F23 QUIZ 2

Qualitative data are better than quantitative used for comparability across contexts

• True

• False

“Smart economics,” microcredit, and women’s economic empowerment training (WEE) programs operate with the stated aim of socioeconomic gender equality; criticisms of them include the fact that they often seem to aid transnational economies more than those of individual women or their communities

• True

• False

All qualitative research, regardless of the number of interviews, observations, or other collected information ALWAYS must be coded

• True

• False

Both Participatory Action Research and a Gender Action Plan (a deliverable/product that ideally should be the culmination of gender-responsive research) should include involvement by a diversity of local stakeholders

• True

• False

Interviews for qualitative research must ALWAYS follow a scripted (structured) set of questions.

• True

• False

Some categories are natural even if most are human-made

• True

• False

Every word in a respondent’s interview should be analyzed and interpreted literally and taken as fact

• True

• False

Qualitative data are usually in the form of recorded and analyzed words but also might include other non-numerical data such as observations and photographs

• True

• False

One difference between qualitative and quantitative research is that keeping numbers organized requires a lot of work while it’s easy to identify and keep track of information from recordings, field notes, and/or photos

• True

• False

“Human capital” refers to skills, education, and training held by individuals or a workforce; the term should include also the investment (cost) to acquire those skills that is undertaken by trainers, trainees, and/or developers although tends to be thought more of in terms of hoped-for related profit

• True

• False