Questionare

this questionare was asked to 4 different people. ive tried my best to use it on the most diverse audience i can find to get opinions from different audiences

Q1. Age (Please answer in the space below)
A1. 22 15 44 32

Q2. Gender (Please answer in the space below)
A2 Male Male Female Female

Q3. Do you download music illegally
Q3. yes yes no no

Q4. how often do you download music illegally.
A4. twice a month twice a week never never

Q5. Do you share websites If yes please state who with.
A5. friends friends and family nobody nobody

i struggeled with my questionare quite a bit i found that with the original set of questions there was a lot of pointless qiestions i was asking that didnt give me information i could use. if the questionare is done properly it can be used to collect quantative data.

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Interview
This interview was with a young man currently in education at Lanfranc secondary school

Q1. Do you download music illegally and if so why ?
A1. I do download music illegally because i cant afford to buy all the music i want to listen to and sometimes youtube dont have all the songs i want. music is something that helps you socialise in life so if im not up to date with the latest musici dont feel part of my friends conversation and its not a nice feeling.

Q2. do you download music illegally. why do you download ?
A2 everyone said yes. there reasons were its free, no jobs or source of income theres not enough encourgment from the law to stop. some people said they dont want to buy it because they are not sure if they will like the whole album. its fast and easy someone suggested that they would perhaps buy specific songs of an album rather than just being given the singles or the full album.

Q3.do you buy music?
A3. No not really. i dont buy my faviourte artists albums because i dont really think they need my support like that. They are rich enough the i think. i have bought a local musicians mix-tape recently because i like his musi and want to support him with funds because at this point his own money is going to create things like the cover and copies of his cd's


Q4. Do you only buy specific types of music ?
A4.yeah i would only buy if i had to rap music cause its my faviourte genre and underground rap/hip hop no pop or comercial stuff.

Q5.Do you think the authorities do enough to stop the growth in illegal
A5.i dont think they do anything at all actually ive never had trouble downloading stuff when ive needed to.

Q6.What websites do you use to download
A6.hot new hip hop is the main site i find everything i want there normally

Q7 Are you often fed links to downloading websites.
A7 i dont look out for them so if they are there i havent noticed

Q8 How often do you download illegally
A8. weekly

Q8 What will be the situation with illegal downloading in 10 years
A8 i think it will all be the same its something i think is to hard to control

I am happy with the feed back i got from this interview i feel that it does a good job of representing the opinions of most secondary school kids. i like the honesty i think this is a reliable source

focus group

Q1. do you download music illegally. why do you download ?
A1 everyone said yes. there reasons were its free, no jobs or source of income theres not enough encourgment from the law to stop. some people said they dont want to buy it because they are not sure if they will like the whole album. its fast and easy someone suggested that they would perhaps buy specific songs of an album rather than just being given the singles or the full album.

Q2 do you buy music?
A2 all of the group agreed that they only buy music from artist they really like because they want them to have enough money to keep making music.

Q3 Do you only buy specific types of music ?
A3 all of the group claimed they normally will only buy from there best artist but a few of them said that if they have been recommended an artist buy a friend with similar music taste then they would consider

Q4 Do you think the authorities do enough to stop the growth in illegal
A4. some people said no but they dont know what should be done. others said jail sentences should be introduced. they collectivley agreed that it also needs to be monitored more strictly.

Q5 What websites do you use to download
A5 frostwire limewire, Im1.net, hot new hip hop, dezedrop and world star

Q6 Are you often fed links to downloading websites.
A6. They all agreed that it would only happen when they were searching up lyrics for songs

Q7 How often do you download illegally
A7 They collectivley agreed they didnt randomly when the artist they listened to released new material

Q8 What will be the situation with illegal downloading in 10 years
A8 half believed that it would have become alot more worse the other half felt it would be alot more harder to do.

the data i collected will help me in the development for my primary research. i believe my focus group was very effective the only place i felt it lacked effectivness was in the demographics of the group they were all of same gender and age. i feel this was however a very reliable way to find information because the target age for illegal downloading are the
ages i had in my focus group
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qualitative
quantiaive
demograpic
psychographic
primary/secondary resarch
data
reliability
academic/non academic sources
typical/atypical
content analysis
objectiviy

focus groups - primary research

A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their perceptions, opinions, beliefs and attitudes towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging.Questions are asked in an interactive group setting where participants are free to talk with other group members.
tips
long/full questions
open questions
be un biast
question there views
explain demographic
make them feel at ease
explain purpose
get everyone involved
occasionally ask specific members for theire opinons