Questionnaires Do Not Work! A Comparison of Methods Used to Evaluate the Structure of Buildings and Wood Used in Rural Households, South Africa

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dc.contributor.author Gaugris, J.Y.
dc.contributor.author van Rooyen, M.W.
dc.date.accessioned 2007-07-05T18:51:32Z
dc.date.available 2007-07-05T18:51:32Z
dc.date.issued 2006
dc.description.abstract The level of hardwood utilisation for house building was evaluated in a rural community of Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A full inventory of 42 households in that community was conducted, followed by a questionnaire survey coupled with a partial inventory of the same households. It was expected that the questionnaire design would be greatly improved by the prior survey, and that similar quantitative results could be obtained. The results show that despite a careful design, the questionnaires and coupled partial inventories provided significantly different results, thus placing considerable doubts on any research solely based on questionnaire results without proper ground proofing. The reasons for such differences are unclear. The main advantage of the questionnaire survey resided in the qualitative insight it offered for the analysis of the data.
dc.identifier.citation Gaugris JY, van Rooyen MW. 2006. Questionnaires do not work! A comparison of methods used to evaluate the structure of buildings and wood used in rural households, South Africa. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 4:119-132.
dc.identifier.issn 1547-3465
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/244
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subject ethnobotany
dc.subject questionnaires
dc.subject research methods
dc.subject wood construction
dc.subject rural housing
dc.subject South Africa
dc.subject hardwood
dc.subject household surveys
dc.subject interviews
dc.subject sampling
dc.subject rural community
dc.subject renewable resources
dc.subject forest resources
dc.subject accuracy
dc.title Questionnaires Do Not Work! A Comparison of Methods Used to Evaluate the Structure of Buildings and Wood Used in Rural Households, South Africa
dc.type Article
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