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Towards A Unified Zakat System

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a wide geographical area, involving four neighbouringcountries.Both postal and self-administrated questionnaires aredesigned to include open- and closed-ended questions. Theresearcher has designed closed-ended rather than open-endedquestions. The advantage of closed-ended questions arethat they can be administered with little directconfrontation (Hague, 1993) and the respondent can performwith greater reliability the task of answering thequestions when response alternatives are given (Fowler,1993). Close-ended questions are also easier andrelatively quicker to answer. In fact, they require nowriting and quantification is straightforward; in otherwords, questions can be answered within a short time(Oppenheim, 1992).5.3.2 Design of the questionnaireThe questionnaire was divided into five parts which coveredthe topics of respondent profile, investment background,<strong>Zakat</strong> reporting and <strong>Zakat</strong> harmonisation. The purpose of thefirst part was to collect demographic data on somecharacteristics of each respondent. This part consisted offive questions, including age, nationality, educational187

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