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level of details which is of sufficient depth, and

can be amenable to meaningful analysis.

In a qualitative survey research, questions

are usually being framed by using interrogative

words such as ‘What’, ‘Where’, ‘Who’, ‘Why’,

‘When’ and ‘How’, which belong to the type of

questions that are designed to elicit subjective

responses. Such an approach will enable the

researcher to obtain in-depth information from the

respondents. Apart from this, the researcher will

need to understand how to analyse the

respondents’ feedback by using methods such as

thematic analysis. Quantitative analysis is rarely