Fostering cultural heritage for
bridging intergenerational dialogue,
FOCAL

Results of surveys and summary is provided in the REPORTS: Greek Report, Bulgarian Report (in Bulgarian, in English), Lithuanian Report (in Lithuanian, in English)

SURVEY PROCESS was organized in December, 2012 - January, 2013. Survey was sent to respondents via e-mail or linked to this invitation to answer the questions in FOCAL project website:

Dear respondents,
Survey “How well I know my culture?” is organized in the framework of Lifelong Learning Grundtvig Partnership project FOCAL, No. 2012-1-LT1-GRU06-07163. Project team would like to ask you to express your opinion about culture, traditions, beliefs and other topics related to cultural development and knowledge about it.
Information, provided in this questionnaire and the results of this survey will be used as information for the project and will be linked to create new products, to help us to understand which information is needed to be described more detailed in report and be presented during the workshops. Summarized results of the survey and provided report (which will be online as well in project website www.focalproject.eu ) will be the first step for cultural exchange and it will allow knowing other cultures. We kindly ask you to express your opinion and give your point of view. Thank you very much in advance for your collaboration and sincere replies. 

Survey you can download from here and answers you can send via e-mail to listed contacts.

Bulgarian survey. Please, send filled in survey to cubufoundation@gmail.com. (Available survey online)

Lithuanian survey. Please, send filled in survey to info@emundus.lt.  (Available survey online)

Greek survey. Please, send filled in survey to info@edumotiva.eu

English version

Developing the survey process we used sampling strategy which can be better described as: stratified, convenience, snowball sampling

Briefly:

A stratified sampling involves dividing the population into homogenous groups, each group containing subjects with similar characteristics. For example group A might contain males...group B females. In order to obtain a sample representative of the whole population in terms of sex a random selection of subjects from group A and B must be taken.... Exactly what we are trying to do with sex and age-groups.

However our sampling strategy I feel has two strong dimensions: convenience and snowball.

Convenience sampling involves choosing the nearest individuals to serve as responders and continue up until a certain sample size has been obtained. Given the fact that our sample does not require special characteristics (i.e we are not looking for people from special backgrounds, or immigrants or people that has a certain level of education, or only single mothers, people with special needs...nor exclude this population...) this does not affect the validity of the survey.

Also a common practice was to say to people that we already know (to our convenience sample)...'please let other people know about our questionnaire'...this broads our field and leads us to a snowball sampling strategy.

In snowball sampling the researchers identify a small number of sample in which they are interested.These people are then used as informants to identify or to bring researchers closer to other people that qualify for inclusion and these identify others.....etc...

Reference:
Cohen L., Manion, L. and Morrison, K. (2007) Research Methods in Education (6th edition) London: Routledge-Falme