3.8. Techniques of Data collection
To collect relevant information and appropriate data required for
the study, the researcher used documentary analysis, observation, interview and
questionnaire.
3.8.1. Documentary analysis/ Documentation
In order to collect the reliable data, the researcher relied on
reading text books, official documents and reports related to the study
3.8.2. Questionnaire
The questionnaire was another technique used to collect data.
Kakinda (1990:25) defines Questionnaire as a set of related questions designed
to collect information from a respondent. This was employed in obtaining views
and opinions with individual respondents. In this research English
questionnaire was used and translated into Kinyarwanda version.
3.8.3. Interview
This is intended to add quality that provided by the
questionnaire. Face-to-face interview was conducted with the help of the
interview schedule during data collection. Structured and non-structured
interview were used. Under unstructured interview, the respondents were given
the subject of the whole issue in general and the respondents were asked to
relict the information without any bias. The interview was used especially to
the local leaders of kitabi sector.
On the other hand, the structured interview schedule the
respondents were given answers from which they would choose. The researcher
used both structured and unstructured interviews, in order to avoid limitations
in their responses.
3.8.4. Observation
The researcher used the Observation technique in data
collection, which is the primary technique for collecting data. Observation
most commonly involves sight or visual data collection via other senses such as
hearing, touching and smelling.
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