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Rural fieldwork

I can collect primary and secondary data in a rural area to help me answer a geographical enquiry question.

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Rural fieldwork

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Key learning points

  1. There are many geographical enquiry questions that you can investigate in rural areas.
  2. Data collection techniques in a rural area can investigate inequality, service provision and lived experience.
  3. Secondary data can provide contextual information about rural populations and spaces and how they have changed.

Keywords

  • Character - the cultural and often historical features of a rural area that make it special

  • Stakeholder - a person with a particular interest in the issue being investigated

  • Lived experience - the everyday, personal experience that someone has of living in a place

Common misconception

There are not enough issues in rural areas to make it worth studying fieldwork enquiries there.

Rural areas have a lot of issues around inequality and access to services as well as interesting cultural geography to study.


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The slower pace of life that is often witnessed in rural areas can make some aspects of data collection challenging. For example, questionnaires may have to be redesigned to take into account that there may be fewer members of the public on the street to ask.
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6 Questions

Q1.
What is the definition of inequality?
Correct answer: The way in which rights and opportunities are unfairly distributed
Everyone having the same access to goods and services
Having a poor standard of living or income
Being treated badly by people of a different social group
Q2.
Which of the following best describes the term 'amenities'?
Correct answer: A useful service such as a doctor's surgery or a sports centre.
An essential service such as a water or power connection.
A structure on which a settlement depends such as a road.
A place that provides a lot of people with employment.
Q3.
Which of the following is least likely to be a rural industry?
Farming
Renewable energy production
Tourism
Correct answer: Finance and banking
Q4.
A leading question is a question that ...
Correct answer: encourages people to answer in a particular way.
gives the respondent a number of options to choose from.
requires expert knowledge to answer.
has multiple parts to answer in turn.
Q5.
An question is one to which a respondent can answer in any way they please.
Correct Answer: Open, open
Q6.
Which of the following is not a reason why people migrate to a rural area to live?
A quieter and more relaxed pace of life.
Cleaner air and healthier lifestyles.
Beautiful views and natural surroundings.
Correct answer: Higher pay and more employment opportunities.

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4 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following statements is true?
There are more issues to study in urban areas than rural ones.
There are more issues to study in rural areas than urban ones.
Correct answer: Urban and rural areas have different types of issues.
The issues in urban areas are more important than rural ones.
Q2.
The of a place refers to its identity, what makes it special and how it feels to be there.
Correct Answer: Character, character
Q3.
Sort these stages of conducting a stakeholder interview into the correct order.
1 - Write the topics in order of priority.
2 - Write open questions against each topic.
3 - Actively listen to the interviewee.
4 - Use the answers to the first question to ask the next one.
Q4.
What is the name of the secondary data source that provides ranked information on inequality?
Correct answer: The index of multiple deprivation
Social media
Estate agent websites
Local tourist boards

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