ABSTRACT
At one end of the second continuum are closed questions, multiple choice questions where respondents have to select from a given, predetermined range of responses that particular response which most accurately represents what they wish to have recorded for them; at the other end of the continuum are much more open-ended questions which do not require the selection from a given range of responses – respondents can answer the questions in their own way and in their own words, i.e. the research is responsive to participants’ own frames of reference and response.
