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Answer to Question 1

Basically , there are two factors that classified Rabab Abdulhadi 's work as a longitudinal research : its social impact (which clamors for social change ) and long period of collection and analysis of data

Abdulhadi focused her study on Palestinian women . Specifically Abdhulhadi studied women 's movement , its emergence , dynamics and challenges . The research study took in consideration the emergence of Palestinian women 's movement in the 1990s . The researcher used the

br interview method to gather relevant data and to capture the opinions and feelings of the participants . There were 74 open-ended interviews conducted among 68 Palestinian women . It also included the participation of six males . In to get a clearer and an in-depth insight into the , Abdulhadi used archived and historical data . By doing so , the researcher was able to provide the movement 's development its issues and concerns during different periods . The research also explained the Palestinian 's women struggles under different circumstances

Reading through the study , one can easily spot that it has been designed as a longitudinal research . The study has obvious social significance to the Palestinian government . As one can read , the result conveys that women have an important role in the Palestinian struggle In fact , Abdulhadi called it the salience of gender ' as the movement emerged during the low period of Palestinian liberation movement . By barely looking at its social impact , the research is classified as a longitudinal research . This research method is used in policy research to measure or explain social change . This kind of research is usually employed to give a deeper understanding of social issues and processes thereby providing a picture of social change or social pattern . It can also explain the different trajectories of individual life , social and economic spheres

One main factor in longitudinal research is the collection and analysis of data over a period of time . The research by Abdulhadi has spanned a few years . The interviews alone were held from 1992 to 1994 . Abdhulhadi depended even on archived s to consolidate the findings , and turned to old-published sources to concretize the result

Answer to Question 2

Index construction has four phases , namely : selecting possible items examining their empirical relationships , scoring the index and validating the index

In selection of possible items , the first thing to consider is to examine its face validity . It also refers to the logical validity . The items must also have unidimensionality meaning , each item must be a composite measure which represents only one dimension of a given concept . It is also crucial to identify whether the items are specific or general in to avoid nuances . Another thing , it is also important to consider the amount of variance that the items provide

Examination of empirical relationships involves closer inspection of relationships among different items to be included . Relationships are tagged either as bivariate or multivariate . Bivariate is a relationship between two variables while multivariate deals...