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3.3 Types of responses and measurement
scales
Regardless of whether the questions are
using interrogative words or not, the responses
provided by the respondents should always be
amenable to analysis. This is the ultimate aim of a
questionnaire, i.e. to collect relevant data or
information from study respondents. The types of
responses shall vary between each question, which
will depend on the information intended to be
collected by researchers. There are four types of
measurement scales such as nominal, ordinal,
