Babbie, Ch. 9 Question

According to Babbie, chapter 9, the construction of close-ended questions should be guided by these two structural requirements:

a) The response categories should be clear and unambiguous

b) The response categories should be exhaustive and mutually exclusive

c) The response categories should be exhaustive and unambiguous

d) Survey questions should never be close-ended

Correct answer: b)

a) While true, these two factors are not the structural guidelines Babbie talks about

c) Exhaustiveness is a structural guideline but ambiguity is not mentioned as the second guideline

d) Close-ended questions are widely used and popular because of their uniformity and the ease with which they can be processed