Ethics and Official Statistics

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Ethics and Official Statistics
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Ethics and Official Statistics
The UN fundamental principle 5
The principle states that the data for statistical purposes might be drawn from all various
sources, which could be either the administrative records or the statistical surveys that take into
consideration four aspects, which are quality, timeless, the burden to the respondents and cost-
effectiveness (Klinke, Renn, and Lehners, 2018).
Recommendations on the selected sources
The data sources should be of high quality meaning they should be reliable as much as
possible so that they can facilitate replication of researches. Moreover, the sources should be
timeless so that they can be used as future references as well as cost-effective for acquisition/
collection of data, analysis, and interpretation. The sources should also have minimal or no
burden to the respondents to encourage high participation and responses for the purported study.
Mixed research methods
Mixed research methods is an approach that incorporates the use of both qualitative and
quantitative techniques in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data (Bell, Bryman, and
Harley 2018). The use of both the qualitative and the quantities methods enables the research to
obtain all the relevant information whereby the limitations of one process are catered for and
vice versa. For instance, most questionnaires could utilize a qualitative approach in incidences
where the qualitative approach does not apply whereas the research can deploy quantitative
means for collecting the numerical data.
Implementation of the mixed methods in Hochschild case study
Based on the nature of the data to be collected, the mixed method approach would be
useful in gathering the data from the respondents. Concisely, interviewing the respondent’s calls