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CHAPTER IV
METHODOLOGY

Research Design
In this current study of determining whether economic stereotypes on dog ownership are considered by 1st year and 2nd year college students of UP Cebu, the researchers decisioned (check) to adopt the survey research design. The concept of a survey research designn, (check) which is to use questionnaires, interviews, etc will be adopted by the researchers in their study (SO WHAT IS IT?DEFINE). The researchers will also use survey questionnaires that will be distributed to the respondents. For the researchers, conducting a survey to the respondents is the appropriate step to be done because the questionnaires will contain important questions and statements that will be answered by the respondents to implicitly present their side on the problem that is imposed.(REMOVE, NOT MEANT HERE) Furthermore, a survey has many types of materials like questionnaires, interviews, (SURE?)etc that the researchers perceive as effective tools in addressing the objective of the current study which is to know whether economic stereotypes on dog ownership are applied on the impression formation of the respondents towards dog owners.(REMOVE)

Sampling Procedure
The idea of purposive sampling will be used by the researchers in selecting the respondents of the current research. Purposive sampling is a type of sampling procedure that requires the proper selection of respondents. Upon saying; (huh?why semi-colon?)proper selection of respondents, this means that the respondents must first meet the requirements imposed by the researchers for him to become the appropriate respondent for the survey. The researchers presume that using purposive sampling procedure is the most efficient way of choosing the respondents for the survey of the current study because, (very long, tighten) the study is about dog owners. Although the researchers are also considering non-dog owners as respondents for the survey, the proper selection process of respondents still needs to follow the mechanism of the purposive sampling procedure because the respondents should be clustered according to the requirements that each cluster specifies. Having these clusters of respondents led the researchers in choosing purposive sampling procedure in the selection process of the respondents for the survey of the current study.(remove)

Sampling Process (remove; join the paragraph below to sampling procedure)
For this research, there will three types of ideal (omit ideal) respondents: the purebred dog owners, the askal dog owners, and the non-dog owners. A person can be considered as one of the first type of respondent (check), which is the purebred dog owner, if the person is an owner of at least one purebred dog and doesn’t owns (grammar) an askal. The same requirement also applies to the last two types of respondents. The respondents for the second type, which is the askal owners, must at least own one askal dog and doesn’t owns (check) a purebred dog. In addition, the third group of respondents, which are the non-dog owners, must never have owned a dog in their whole life. The researchers emphasize that all requirements must be satisfied by the person in order for him to be considered as one of the respondents for the survey.

Respondents and Locale of the Study
The respondents will be the 1st year and the 2nd year college students enrolled in all courses offered in the University of the Philippines Cebu. There will be 5 first year college purebred dog owners and 5 second year college purebred dog owners (10 purebred dog owners all in all). There will also be 5 first year college and 5 second year college askal dog owners (10 askal dog owners all in all). And lastly, 5 first year and 5 second year non-dog owners are also included as respondents for the study(10 non-dog owners all in all). (figure below 10, spell out. Ex five instead of 5))

Data Collection
In order to determine whether dog ownership affects stereotypes on economic status, three different questionnaires will be distributed to purebred dog owners, askal owners, and non dog owners respectively. Furthermore, the respondents will be requested to precisely answer and fill up the questions given in the questionnaire. The questionnaires will be distributed to the qualified respondents and will be collected back right after it is answered. (time frame?)

Instrumentation
Three sets of questionnaires will be distributed to three types of respondents. Each questionnaire will have three parts. The first part determines the personal information of the respondents, which includes their name, age, sex, and their course and year. The second part determined (s) their financial background basing from their STFAP bracket assignment, family’s annual income and weekly allowance. The third part is in 5 point Likert Scale form, wherein the respondents indicated (check tense) whether they strongly agree, agree, are undecided, disagree, or strongly agree to given statements. Questionnaires for purebred dog owners will have statements on common purebred dog stereotypes, common askal dog stereotype, and impression on askal dog owners. Questionnaires for askal dog owners will have statements on common askal dog stereotypes, common purebred dog stereotypes and impression on purebred dog owners. Lastly, questionnaires for non-dog owners will have statements on common purebred dog stereotypes, impression on purebred dog owners, common askal dog stereotypes and impression on askal dog owners. The statements will further emphasize how dog ownership affects stereotypes on the economic status of its owners.



Data Analysis
In order to determine whether the University of the Philippines Cebu 1st year and 2nd year students apply stereotyping in their impression formation towards the economic status of dog owners, the data gathered from the questionnaires will be tabulated and analyzed. There will three (check) types of questionnaires, thus, the information from each type of questionnaires will be precisely tabulated and analyzed according to their cases. After, the researchers will then correlate all data to determine whether the University of the Philippines Cebu 1st year and 2nd year students applies (check) stereotyping in their impression formation towards the economic status of dog owners.
In the analysis process, data collected from each type of respondent will be tabulated and will be compared to each other. We will then know whether there is a difference on common purebred dog stereotypes and common askal dog stereotypes from the three types of respondents. We will also know whether there is a difference on the impression on purebred dog owners from askal owners and non-dog owners. Lastly, whether there is a difference on the impression on askal dog owners from purebred dog owners and non-dog owners.