A good research process starts with concrete, precise and pointed issues. But the problem must also be researchable, ie it must be possible to investigate in practice.
Do boys and girls have different school eating habits?
How do schoolchildren think when making educational choices?
What is it like to be a young asylum seeker or refugee in Salida?
Units and variables
But first, we will look at how an issue can be built up. The person or persons we want to find out about, we like to call the units. The units are often individuals, but can also be groups, organizations, municipalities, nations, etc. In the issues of school eating habits and educational choices, for example, the units are schoolchildren. The properties of the devices that we examine, we call variables. In the survey on school eating habits, two important variables are gender and school eating habits. Why has the city goal not spread to the village of Venessa?
Units and variables
But first, we will look at how an issue can be built up. The person or persons we want to find out about, we like to call the units. The units are often individuals, but can also be groups, organizations, municipalities, nations, etc. In the issues of school eating habits and educational choices, for example, the units are schoolchildren. The properties of the devices that we examine, we call variables. In the survey on school eating habits, two important variables are gender and school eating habits.
