Economic Activity and Energy

Investigating the location factors of businesses

Aim

-          Investigating the locations of factories or services (in Hammersmith and Chiswick)

Hypothesis

-          Businesses locating in (Chiswick Business park) will have different locational requirements to businesses in (Hammersmith Broadway)

Equipment

-          Questionnaires followed by in depth interviews

-          Questionnaires might list local requirements

-          Interviews might be helped by a series of questions and recorded (permission)

Method

-          10 businesses from (Chiswick Business Park) and 10 from (Hammersmith Broadway) were chosen.

-          A questionnaire was written to determine reasons for locating in the two locations

-          Questionnaires were sent to the businesses

-          Those who agreed to take this further will be interviews

-          A field sketch and photographs were taken of the study area

-          Customised recording sheets were used to tabulate the data

Presentation Technique

-          Bar chart (reason on one axis and scale of importance on another)

Risk assessment

-          All interviews come with the risk of inter-personal disagreements (work in pairs)

Evaluation

-          Difficult to obtain appointments with chairs or mangers of each business

-          Those answering the questions may not be senior enough

Secondary Sources

-          Maps showing transport routes

-          Census data

-          Newspaper articles

-          Company annual reports

Investigating people conflicting views on renewable an d non-renewable energy

Aim

-          Investigating people conflicting views on the use and impact of renewable and non-renewable energy at (Latymer Upper School)

Hypothesis

-          Younger people are more in favour of using renewable energy than their parents

Equipment

-          Questionnaire based in 5 – 10 questions, open and closed questions (rate the following in order of importance – cost of energy, use of renewable energy…?)

Method

-          Questionnaires were written with open and closed question about renewable and non-renewable energy

-          The questions were then piloted with two pupils and two parents

-          30 (parents) and 30 (middle school pupils) were asked their opinions via the questionnaire (stratified)

-          The results from the (school) were then compared to similar survey conducted by (British Gas)

Presentation Technique

-          Percentages, stats and figures which allows for data comparison

Risk assessment

-          Parental complaints having to answer this questionnaire (covering letter)

Evaluation

-          Results might suffer because lock of knowledge about renewable and non – renewable sources

Secondary Sources

-          Internet research on regional and national surveys

-          Newspaper search

-          Internet search for interest groups