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Lifestyle Survey Toolkit

The Different Research Methods

Certain research methods are more appropriate to the 3 different research approaches.  For example, qualitative methods are better for exploratory research (see below – two stars = very appropriate); causal research requires survey data or experiments to be conduced:

Background information on a number of different Research Methods are given below;

• Experiments
• Observation
• Qualitative Research
• Survey Methods