Survery Paper

DeMeaka Lenzy

Survey Paper

February 22, 2011

RES/341

Introduction

Shopping has become a past time that I have not figured out how to miss. This is an issue that I share with a number of Americans. Shopping has become the one thing that can either bring a relationship together or rip it apart at the root. Many marriages have been destroyed due that fact the money issue which mainly steam from shopping. While many people claim to have control of their shopping there are millions on top of millions that do not have control and basically losing a never ending battle.

Administration of the Survey

The need of this survey is to get some information about how some people are thinking about their shopping habits. This is a survey that will be administered to individuals in several different ways. We will have a call center located at the headquarters where all the final calculations will be made, that will call people that have recently purchased an item or items over a certain amount. We will also have face to face interviews at various events around the community. This will be a volunteer survey but there will gifts given to ensure that participation is good. These methods where chosen because I feel that will get the most reception among the public. As a general knowledge of what we are looking for this survey should be administered to as many people as possible but no less than one thousand shoppers as this is just a starting point and will grow in size as we move from area to area.

How the Purpose of the Survey Addresses the Research Questions

These survey questions where created with the hope of being able to get an accurate knowledge on impulse shopping. The questions are basically asking are you an impulse shopper. What do you feel when you shop. Many times when we shop we go in for one thing and come out the store with a basket or arm full of things that are not on the list of things to be gotten, and many times the stuff that we went in the store...