References

Applied Research: 

Applied research focuses on analyzing and solving real-life problems. This type of research refers to the study that helps solve practical problems using scientific methods. This research plays an important role in solving issues that impact the overall well-being of humans. For example, finding a specific cure for a disease. 

Problem Oriented Research: 

As the name suggests, problem-oriented research is conducted to understand the exact nature of the problem to find out relevant solutions. The term “problem” refers to having issues or two thoughts while making any decisions.   

Problem Solving Research:

This type of research is conducted by companies to understand and resolve their own problems. The problem-solving research uses applied research to find solutions to the existing problems. 

Qualitative Research:

Qualitative research is a process that is about inquiry, that helps in-depth understanding of the problems or issues in their natural settings.  This is a non- statistical research method.  Qualitative research is heavily dependent on the experience of the researchers and the questions used to probe the sample. The sample size is usually restricted to 6 to 10 people in a sample.  Open-ended questions are asked in a manner that one question leads to another. The purpose of asking open-ended questions is to gather as much information as possible from the sample. 

The following methods, particularly in human helping/social service organizations working with clients and families, are used for qualitative research gathering:

1. One-to-one interview 

2. Focus Groups

3. Ethnographic Research

4. Content / Text Analysis

5. Case study research

Quantitative Research:  

Quantitative research is a structured way of collecting data and analyzing it to draw conclusions. Unlike qualitative research, this research method uses a computational, statistical and similar method to collect and analyze data. Quantitative data is all about numbers. 

Quantitative research involves a larger population as more number of people means more data. In this manner, more data can be analyzed to obtain accurate results. This type of research method uses closed-ended questions, because, the researchers are typically looking at measuring the extent and gathering foolproof statistical data.

Online surveys, questionnaires and polls are preferable data collection tools used in quantitative research. There are various methods of deploying surveys or questionnaires.

Today, online surveys and questionnaires have gained popularity using tools like Survey Monkey. Survey respondents can receive these surveys on mobile phones, emails or can simply use the internet to access surveys or questionnaires. They can even receive an honorarium through the system.

A key form of quantitative data is the population Census of Inuit communities using the long form census that gets tabulated and analyzed statistically.