Chapter+3

 Questionnaire method is the most common data collection instrument. It is useful to collect quantitative and qualitative information. Therefore, our group is using this method for our research project.
 * 3.0 Introduction **

**3.1 Setting **  1. The respondent for this study will be done in UMP campus only. 2. The target group of this study will be the 40 male and 40 female 2nd year BCS students which include student from C21 LBS, C22 LBS, C23 LBS and C24 LBS.

Table for data collection:  **3.2 Data Collection **  We use questionnaire-type instrument to collect the data of our research about absenteeism.  This questionnaire-type instrument consists of four sections.  (If the answer for the first question at section B is ‘yes’, the respondent will continue answering the rest of questions. If the answer is ‘no’, the respondent need to go straight to section D.) **Section C **: Causes of absenteeism. **Section D **: Opinions and suggestions.
 * C21LBS  ||||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">C22 LBS   ||||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">C23 LBS   ||||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">C24 LBS   ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Male || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Female  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Male  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Female  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Male  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Female  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Male  || <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Female  ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10  ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||  <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10   ||
 * 3.2.1 Instrument**
 * Section A**: Background information of students.
 * Section B**: Frequency of absence.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Section A, B and C are **close ended** while the section D is **close ended** **and open ended**. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After we retrieved the flow of information from Madam Ainol Haryati Ibrahim (Academic Report Writing lecturer), we made a draft of questionnaire’s section for the lecturer to check and renew it from error. Then, we made a new questionnaire with no error at all and print it for another lecturer checkings. After the mid-term holiday, we have photostat 80 questionnaire samples for distribution. Then, we distribute the questionnaire samples to four group sections of computer faculty. For the group section C21 LBS and group section C22 LBS, Amin Luddin Bin Adnan and Mohd Amirol Redzuan Bin Mat Rofi has passed the questionnaire samples to them respectively. The rest group sections, C23 LBS and C24 LBS, the distribution of questionnaire samples has been done by Faiz Misuari Bin Ali. Praise be to Allah, we managed to collect the 80 answered questionnaire samples back successfully by September 24, 2010. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">3.3 Data analysis **
 * 3.2.2 Procedure**