Instruction: In all, answer three (3) questions. Answer question one and any two (2) questions TIME: 3 HRS GY from section B. All questions in section B carry equal marks. Section A (50 marks) Qu 1. The loan officer of a bank in Ghana revealed the following information pertaining to customers who took loan and were able to honour and those who defaulted in honouring their loan obligation from the bank, from the period 2000 to 2010. The data comprise; names, contact numbers, house numbers, locations such as rural, semi-urban, urban areas of loan beneficiaries. Additional information regarding labour, salary, gender, marital and loan-defaulting status are unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled labour, low, average and high salary earners, males and females, married and unmarried, loan-defaulters and non-defaulters of loan. The names of the customers are arranged serially in the record book of the bank. Assuming a research is to be conducted into this data for public consumption by using ethical considerations in research; a) Propose a topic for the research. (4 marks) b) State four (4) objectives pertaining to your topic. (8 marks) c) State four (4) research questions pertaining to your topic. (4 marks) d) How will you address each of these objectives? (8 marks) e) State and justify the most appropriate sampling technique required. (4 marks) f) Briefly outline the processes involved in the data collection and analysis to meet these ethical standards in research. (6 marks) Explain the following statements as applied in research: g) Primary data collection is relatively expensive, yet many researchers prefer using primary data to secondary data in their research work. (4 marks) h) Generally, in many research activities, probability sampling techniques are preferred to non-probability sampling techniques. (5 marks) i) in general, many research activities are conducted by the use of sample survey instead of complete enumeration (census). (4 marks) j) The research process must be valid and verifiable