Question One

The Government of Ghana has initiated severally policies aimed at digitalizing the economy. Over the past decade, the government has initiated policies such as the e-payslip to curb ghost workers, the construction of the Accra digital centre, the introduction of Ghana.gov to facilitate online payments such as filling taxes among others and the QR code system. However, the patronage of such platforms and systems has not been encouraging. In an attempt to encourage adoption and frequent usage of the online platforms, the Government of Ghana wishes to understand the reasons Ghanaians fail to fully patronize these platforms. Your friend who works with the ministry of communication recommends you as the best consultant for the project. As a consultant, you are expected to determine how the age of citizens, level of education, gender, income, and rural and urban settlement affect patronage of digital platforms.

As the consultant:

a. Formulate a research topic and state the dependent and independent variables.

b. State the general objective and two specific objectives for this study.

c. Based on the specific objectives identified, state two research hypotheses, both the null and the alternative.

d. Identify the type of research approach to be adopted and justify it.

e. What is the population of your proposed study and the sampling technique(s) to be adopted in selecting a sample size of 756? Justify the sampling technique(s) to be used.[3 marks]

f. Assuming you will have to collect data from the respondents directly, describe the instrumentation you will use.

Question 2

The management of the University of Professional Studies, Accra intends to ascertain students satisfaction on campus. You have been asked to conduct qualitative research on behalf of the management.

Require: a. Formulate an appropriate research topic for the study. b. State two research objectives and Questions. c. State an appropriate sample size. Justify d. Design a topic-based interview guide (including three topics and three sub-topics pertaining to each topic)