This question is not entirely legitimate in relation to the principle of choice in this case. Those and other numbers are correct, but they reflect the different reality or, rather, several different aspects of the phenomenon under study. In strict limitation when the Respondent chooses one of the most significant alternative, thus is determined by the dominant factor (the lack of housing in new cities quite frequently such a factor in the decision of dismissal from the company and moving to another city). Free choice or a limited choice of poorly allows the Respondent more fully Express a number of important phenomena, and thereby broaden the scope of the phenomenon under study. In these cases, despite the difference in the responses (as a rule, it is small), it is logical to take these alternatives as equal in importance if the objectives of the study require definition of more strict dependence alternatives. We can say that the second and third choices is more soft in comparison with the first, the data interpretation is more legitimate.
Everything said should be taken into consideration in the second type of question when the Respondent is asked to choose not one, but two or three (as is usually done) alternatives.![]()
Everything said should be taken into consideration in the second type of question when the Respondent is asked to choose not one, but two or three (as is usually done) alternatives.