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[kapildev...@gmail.com]

Dear members

what is the correct procedure for giving categories to various variables like age, income etc...... should it be 10-20, 20-30, 30-40 or 10-20, 21-30, 31-40 etc.

Please help

Regards 

Dr. Sukhmani

[Anchal Arora]

Most probably, second condition should be opted. It will b easy for calculating further.

Regards
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[Neeraj Kaushik]

Dear Dr Sukhmani
It was today only I was discussing this with my students.
See none of the demo var shd be taken only for the sake of taking them.
Even Gender (M/F) shd be asked only if there is some literature
available that your area of study has some relation with gender i.e.
responses of the people differ on the basis of their gender.
Likewise age, income, profession etc. all shd be asked only if you're
able to connect them with ur study.
Age categories shd never be asked like 10-20 / 20-30, rather they shd
be related like childhood / young age/ adolescence / youth etc.
or may be on some other basis but there must be some basis for sure.
Ask yourself whether whatever demo var you are taking, is it related
to your study or not? If yes, then how? Accordingly you shd take the
demo var(s)
Plz note you take nothing just for the sake of taking it. Every single
thing must be well though of & you must a basis for determining that.
Best wishes
Neeraj

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Business Administration
NIT Kurukshetra

[Sapna Sangra]

Thank you sir, very informative explanation.

regards

sapna, JU

   Sapna Kamal Sangra, PhD

    Commonwealth Professional Fellow, 2012  

    Assistant Professor of Sociology

    University of Jammu www.jammuuniversity.in

     Jammu and Kashmir

     INDIA

[Lavina Singh]

But sir the categories like age or income although we took as young, adolescent etc...further we will have to define up to which age limit we categorised as young. For eg. 0-10: child, 10-20 teenager etc. The doubt is whether we should take like 0-10, 10-20 or like 0-10, 11-20. Every time this doubt happen to me also.

[asha chawla]

i also agree with you lavina ji. because sometimes our respondents are layman i.e. belonging to each category. we have to come to their level.
i think second option is more appropriate.

[rachin suri]

Neeraj sir is absolutely correct, but demographics like age can be collected in an exact number and later on according to the need can be catogorised.
Why to make catogories prior to the need, u learn a lot on d topic as d tym passes and develop new theories related to it. Respondents to every study varies, if ur respondent is a layman then one should definitely avoid demographics dat r nt required and design d questionnaire accordingly...

[Neeraj Kaushik]

Very good observation Rachin.

Keep sharing ur valuable insights.

Best wishes
Neeraj

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, rachin suri <rachi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Neeraj sir is absolutely correct, but demographics like age can be collected in an exact number and later on according to the need can be catogorised.
Why to make catogories prior to the need, u learn a lot on d topic as d tym passes and develop new theories related to it. Respondents to every study varies, if ur respondent is a layman then one should definitely avoid demographics dat r nt required and design d questionnaire accordingly...

[rachin suri]

Thnx sir,
You plz keep on inspiring, I will try my best to contribute more...

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[deependra sharma]

SIR,

I am still not clear why not to take age in absolut terms

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[Neeraj Kaushik]

As Rachin mentioned taking age in absolute (Age: ___) is the best measurement as later u can convert into any meaningful category.

The only problem is the response rate is very low in open ended questions.

[Anchal Arora]

Agreed Dear Neeraj Sir n Rachin Sir.

Regards
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