Research methods

Answer ALL Questions in this Section QUESTION ONE Frimpong Consult has signed a Credit Facility Agreement with UNDP to provide financial support to 2000 small business enterprises (SBEs) in four urban centres: Nkronza, Cape Coast, Twifo Praso and Elmina. Each urban centre has 500 small business enterprises. This facility is to assist SBEs to expand their businesses. One urban community is to be selected to benefit from the pilot project. To enable Frimpong Consult make informed decisions as to the course of action to take, the general manager wants to investigate how age of the business, access to credit, gender of the owner, and educational attainment of the owner influence size of business in one of the urban community. In line with this, you have been appointed by the general Manager to work as a team on this project. (a) Formulate a research topic and state the dependent and independent variables. 5 marks (b) State the general objective and two specific objectives for this study. 5 marks (c) Based on the specific objectives identified, state Either two research questions Or two research hypotheses, both the null and the alternative. 5 marks (d) Identify the type of research approach to be adopted and why? 5 marks (e) What is the population of your proposed study and the sampling technique(s) to be adopted in selecting a sample size of 100 ? Justify the sampling technique(s) to be used. 5 marks (f) What is a questionnaire? Develop a mini questionnaire of which one question each should be nominal and ordinal based research questions for the study. 5 marks