NT1330 Unit 3 Assignment 1
The surveys were designed for three different targeted audiences, survey1 for IT professionals in the IT departments of SCT, CAS and DU, survey 2 for all users types such as staff, employees and students of SCT, CAS and DU from all departments and survey 3 designed for Vendors who are providing technologies to SCT, CAS and DU.
When gathering data through survey it is better to consider the sample size that can be representative of the targeted audience where so few re-spondents means the collected data may not be representative of those targeted audience that leads to inaccurate results. Thankfully, there is way that can be used to calculate the sample size needed to conduct a survey. This way one can use to determine how many respondents are for a survey needed to ensure the researcher is able to act on the most possible accurate results (Widgix, LLC dba SurveyGizmo, 2016). …show more content…
Using this sample of the study that was calculated with Confidence Level of 95% and Confidence Interval (The margin of error) of 5% after estimat-ing the total number of the users in SCT, CAS and DU by 11440 users, the needed respondents number for survey2 is 372 while the survey 1 was needed only 45 respondents for the estimating the total number of IT professionals and in SCT, CAS and DU by 50 IT professionals and survey 3 needs 10 respondents where the same number of vendors and developers is estimated (Widgix, LLC dba SurveyGizmo,
When gathering data through survey it is better to consider the sample size that can be representative of the targeted audience where so few re-spondents means the collected data may not be representative of those targeted audience that leads to inaccurate results. Thankfully, there is way that can be used to calculate the sample size needed to conduct a survey. This way one can use to determine how many respondents are for a survey needed to ensure the researcher is able to act on the most possible accurate results (Widgix, LLC dba SurveyGizmo, 2016). …show more content…
Using this sample of the study that was calculated with Confidence Level of 95% and Confidence Interval (The margin of error) of 5% after estimat-ing the total number of the users in SCT, CAS and DU by 11440 users, the needed respondents number for survey2 is 372 while the survey 1 was needed only 45 respondents for the estimating the total number of IT professionals and in SCT, CAS and DU by 50 IT professionals and survey 3 needs 10 respondents where the same number of vendors and developers is estimated (Widgix, LLC dba SurveyGizmo,