Authors:
Aiyub
1
;
2
;
Sri Novitayani
1
;
3
and
Marthoenis
1
Affiliations:
1
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
;
2
Doctoral Program of Mathematic and Applied Sciences, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
;
3
Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Challenges, Data Collection, Survey.
Abstract:
Data collection is a substantial step in conducting a research. Researchers usually face enormous challenges in this step. While they have to maintain the validity of inferences, they also must anticipate such unexpected factors that might intrude the results. One of the most important things in maintaining validity of research results is to keep validity of data through a good and correct data collection process. The challenges become greater when the data collection is carried out in developing countries where the levels of education, socio-economic status of respondents as well as the enumerators’ capacity are significantly varied. The present study aims to investigate the challenges of research data collection process through interview by using questionnaire in a developing country of Indonesia. The study was conducted by qualitative method with Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as data collection method. The respondents were enumerators involved in a community based health survey in
districts of Indonesia. Data were analyzed using the qualitative content analysis method to identify themes, categories, and sub-categories. The study had been identified two themes, namely: internal challenges (questionnaire, research status, sample election, enumerator) and external challenges (research permit, respondent and research location) as the challenges of data collection process. The themes were identified in the study will be guidance for researchers in planning and conducting data collecting process through interviews by using questionnaire for enhancing validity of research results in Indonesia and other developing countries.
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