In the course of attempting to collect and preserve raw data from
qualitative studies, the research we have carried out into longitudinal data
suggests that there is relatively little.
There are a number of exceptions:
1. George Brown's studies all have a longitudinal dimension where
participants were interviewed up to 3 times across a period of 5 or so
years.
2. Paul Thompson also did a follow up study with a sample of 60 people aged
over 50 drawn from the British Household Panel Study, On the Edge of Later
Life (1993 - 1994)
3. Ray Pahl conducted a study of Employers on the Isle of Sheppey, Surveyed
1981 and followed up in 1985
4. Longitudinal study of ageing and elderly support networks, Clare Wengar
(1987-1989)
5. Longitudinal study: Turkish village and their emigrants, Stirling, P,
Prof (1989 - 1991)
6. Assessment and career in a primary school: a longitudinal ethnography,
Pillard, A J, Prof (1993-96)
7. The indication of young workers into shop floor culture- a longitudinal
continuation study, P, Willis (1977-79)
8. A longitudinal study of child development in single parent families,
Wolkind, S N, Dr (1974-77)
9. A longitudinal study of a cohort of students embarking on a social work
qualifying course, J. Tombs (1992-1995)
10. Drug pathways into young adulthood: a follow up of a longitudinal sample
of drugwise 'post adolescents', Parker H J (1999 - 2000)
Some of these data and accompanying methodological details have been
archived by Qualidata (1-3). 4 is in the process of being archived and 5 is
available from a web site. Others 6-10 have not been traced.
Hope this is of some help
Louise
Louise Corti
Director, User Services and Qualitative Data Service, UK Data Archive
University of Essex
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From: Roger Vallance [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 October 2001 02:18
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Subject: Exemplary Longitudinal Studies
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Colleagues,
I am preparing for some teaching next year. I am interested in presenting
to a gorup of postgraduate qualitative research students some ideas on
longitudinal qualitiative studies. I am not interested in studies where
some qualitative work preceeded a longituidnal survey or other quantitative
approach, but studies where the 'longitudinal' refers to qualitative
methods of one form or another.
I would like to ask for some help. If you have some ideas about exemplary,
or even worthwhile in parts, qualitative longitudinal studies I will be
very pleased to hear from you and to receive the appropriate reference. As
I will be dealing with people from across the qualitative spectrum, I am
interested in a range of disciplines and methodologies. Also, I would hope
that readers would not be too humble and so withhold references to their
own longitudinal qualitative studies.
I will compile these into a list and read through them over the (southern
hemisphere) end-of-year break. To those who submit references I will ensure
that a full list of references I receive is sent on to all contributors.
If readers choose to annotate references itelling me how they were
exemplary or where they were worthy of note, I would consider that a great
help and a bonus!
I look forward to some lively discussion and the fruitful swapping
of ideas.
Roger Vallance
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