congrats. What a feeling.

Thank for your response. It was never brought up. After all these critic he ends up with this note:

"I am impressed with the work which you have done- it is a good piece of work, and will certainly make a contribution.If you attend to 1-10 above, it will be a very good piece of work".

How do I get "focus groups" involved at this stage?

regards

I am very disturbed after receiving from a the first final draft submited to my supervisors. Among the points highlighted the following worries me:

8. You state on p.23 that you are going toemploy a range of statistical techniques. In actual fact, I only noticed 2instances of cross tabulation. The rest is pure descriptive stats, and I have aproblem here- percentages and frequencies are somewhat thin for a doctorate. Iam convinced that the thesis can be strengthened a great deal by properstatistical analysis- pls consult the statistician.
9.Also, using only a questionnaire at doctoral level is thin. I think it isimperative that you run at least two focus groups, in which you can discuss anddebate the results of the questionnaire. This will strengthen the thesis agreat deal..




ANY ADVICE IS WELCOME

mamara

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Are there some docs. on this forum who have the heart as well as the time to read and probably share their experience and insights with ongoing phd candidate's work. Is this a good idea ?

I have collected and analysized the data for my using spss. Now its time to report . What is the best approach to reporting the findings. Do report in accordance with the research questions and if so do i have to restate the research question?

Thanks to all who have replied. Your experience would be very usefully. I was doubting what to do, but now I can decide with degree of faith.

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Thnks for a speedy response. I intend to do descriptive statistics, and since I would be comparing different immigrants groups, may be ANOVA tests would be done.

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Hi all,
I am currently researching immigrant entrepreneurs. Due to the absence of any reliable database to work with I choose the snowballing sampling technique.
My question how big my sample should be?
Thnx in advance