Why Did the Researchers in the New Hope Antipoverty Program

question 22

Multiple Choice

Why did the researchers in the New Hope Antipoverty program decide to implement qualitative methodology?

• A) They did not understand the quantitative data that they were gathering.
• B) They found a great deal of variability in the way people in the program made choices.
• C) The researchers were anthropologists and had been trained to use qualitative field methods.
• D) Qualitative methods were the only kinds of data-gathering that the local people would allow.
• E) Use of qualitative methodology was required by the grant agencies involved in this program.

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Definitions:

First-stage Allocation

The initial process of assigning indirect costs to relevant cost objects or activities, typically in a cost accounting system.

Activity-based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities, providing a more accurate picture of the cost to produce a product or service.

First-stage Allocation

The process in cost accounting of assigning overhead costs to various cost pools before they are allocated to products or services.

Activity-based Costing

This costing method assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities, providing more accurate insights into the actual costs of production or service delivery.