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Research designed to help organisational decision-making, focusing on the incidence and statistical relationship of variables. It tends to have the following characteristics: use of structured questionnaires with standard questions and limited responsiveness to context; little face-to-face contact between respondents and primary researchers (questionnaire administered by trained interviewers); use of large samples; results subjected to statistical analysis;
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