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Chapter 1
Background
A questionnaire is often the preferred
platform for eliciting relevant information from a
target population or its sample. Hence, it is defined
as “a set of printed or written questions with a
choice of answers, devised for the purposes of a
survey or statistical study” (Oxford Dictionary,
2018). In other words, a questionnaire can also be
referred as a set of relevant questions that are
assembled together in a digital (soft copy) or non-