Construction of Questionnaire
Although the markets were closed, my group decided to have a meeting regarding our project. This time it was about the questions we were going to ask the people of the market.
Potential Questions;
1. What’s your nationality?
2. What is the best thing about this community?
3. What would you like to change about it?
4. What influence do you think immigration have in the area?
5. What would you like to say on behalf of the immigrants in this area?
After we accumulated our questions we went to our campus to have a meeting with our tutor, so he could suggest changes or add to the questions we’ve produced.
Instead of “What’s your nationality?” our tutor suggested for us to change it to “How do you define your nationality”. From my point of view did this is an unconventional approach to asking people their nationality, however I think it’s a positive change, because people would usually answer it in a straight forward manner. With this question, they are “forced” to scrutinize themselves and their nationality to how they would define themselves. Therefore, giving us an impression of who they really are, how they’re feelings are towards their nationality.
In our second question, we only asked about what’s the best thing about the community. To make it more valid we have to show the other side of the question, which is what the worst aspect within the community is.
There were no changes within the third question, as it links to the second. Due to the fact that the individuals who answered the question, will have an opinion on the solutions of what to do to change what’s the worst thing about the community
Instead of using the present tense for our forth question, our tutor decided that it would be more stimulating to look at the causes of immigration from the past, leading up to the present. The question has been reconstructed to “What influence do you think immigration has had on the area? During the last 50 years”.
One of our questions needed to be discarded, and it was the last question. This is because; it’s a question that will exploit an individual’s negative perspective towards immigrants. Although this maybe their true views about immigrants, we don’t want them to look bad to the point where people who have seen are products are going to creating conflict towards them.
The questionnaire that my group produced has been finalized, and we were ready to start interviewing people