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compare participants n<strong>or</strong>mal <strong>or</strong> preferred payment with their perceptions <strong>of</strong> current payment<br />

modes available.<br />

1.6.1: Sampling Procedure<br />

Participants f<strong>or</strong> phase one and three will be recruited via an invitation through community<br />

groups. Purposeful sampling is adopted f<strong>or</strong> both phases; specifically non-probability<br />

criterion-based purposeful sampling (Hair, Bush, & Ortinau, 2009; Patton, 2002). Purposeful<br />

sampling allows the researcher to intentionally select participants who have experience with<br />

the central phenomenon <strong>or</strong> the key concept being expl<strong>or</strong>ed. Where there is the need to<br />

control f<strong>or</strong> fact<strong>or</strong>s that could influence outcome a ‘maximal variation sampling’ strategy is<br />

recommended (Creswell, Clark, Gutmann and Hanson, 2003).<br />

Various studies rep<strong>or</strong>t that some demographics fact<strong>or</strong>s link to payment mode choice. There<br />

is fairly consistent evidence that age, income and education influence payment mode choices.<br />

High income and education level have a positive relationship both debit and credit card<br />

owner ship however younger people and females have higher debit card ownership (Pahl,<br />

1999; Singh and Ryan, 1999; B<strong>or</strong>zekowski, Kiser and Ahmed, 2006; Carpenter and Mo<strong>or</strong>e,<br />

2008; Klee, 2004; Lee and Kwon, 2002). In addition, acc<strong>or</strong>ding a Nielsen Rep<strong>or</strong>t (2011), two<br />

thirds <strong>of</strong> supermarket shoppers in New Zealand are women, theref<strong>or</strong>e the intent is to recruit<br />

participants who represent the ethnic composition <strong>of</strong> New Zealand, who have tertiary/non-<br />

tertiary qualifications and who are:<br />

� Females aged 24-45<br />

� Who live in a household comprising a partner and one child under the age <strong>of</strong> five and<br />

have similar disposable incomes<br />

� Who live in suburbs whose residents have similar demographic characteristics<br />

1.6.2: Analytic Procedures<br />

The study acquires two different types <strong>of</strong> data; phase one requires qualitative data and phases<br />

two and three empirical data. Data from the stage one focus groups, once transcribed, will be<br />

text analysed using Nvivo. The analysis process follows the “constant comparative<br />

technique”. The PMP (<strong>Payment</strong> Mode <strong>Perceptions</strong>) questionnaire validation will be subjected<br />

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