Primary Research

Primary Research is when you used data ( information) that you have discovered yourself, which means that you are the main source.

The different ways of getting that primary information is through:

Interviews

Focus Groups

Questionnaires

Observations

 

Here is an example of a Questionnaire/ Interview

When doing this questionnaire, six questions were asked by me about Museums.

Here are the six questions.

1. How many Museums have you been to in your life?

2. Do you like or dislike Museums and why?

3. Would you go to the museum for educational reasons, entertainment or both?

4. If you had a lot of money, would you buy an Museum, Yes or No? and Why?

5. If you could have a sleepover at a Museum, would you?

6. Which museum do you like and why?

After I had thought of my questions, I interviewed a teenage boy named Karim and here are his answers

1. I have to about 10-15 in my lifetime

2. Yeah I like Museums because its entertaining, it also has variety. Also, it is very educational, which makes it enjoyable.

3.Both

4. Yes, I would buy a Museum because I could help out the Museum, by promoting it and buy more historical figures (different types of architecture) to better the Museum.

5.Yeah I actually have slept over at a Museum, so yes I would sleepover.

6. The best Museum I have been to was in France called The Pompidou Museum because i could be in a calm environment was relaxing and comforting paintings and artefact. However, some of object and imagery were crazy and abstract, which I loved.

When asking Karim these questions I thought that, Question 2, Question 4 and Question 6 were the best questions because they had got Karim to elaborate on the topic. Compared to Question 1, Question 3 and Question 5, which were very vague and you could not really get more information (it is very limiting). I have learnt that questions with a limited answer, is not good when researching.