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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-
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