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> Sent: 03 December 1997 05:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Combining Qualitative & Quantitative Research -Reply
>
> A tough question that I have struggled with working in a school of
> public
> health. One approach I have taken is described in the paper:
>
> Gittelsohn, J., Harris, S., Whitehead, S., Wolever, T., Hanley, T.,
> Barnie,
> A., Kakegamic, L., Logan, A., and Zinman B., (1995) ADeveloping
> Diabetes Interventions in an Ojibwa-Cree Community in Northern
> Ontario:
> Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Data,@ Chronic Diseases in
> Canada,
> v.16 (4): 157-164.
>
> - Joel Gittelsohn
>
> >>> <[log in to unmask]> 12/02/97 11:51am >>>
> Pat Bazeley wrote about information regarding integrating survey data
> using qual software tools. In our company, we are currently
> struggling
> with the broader issue of integrating qualitative and quantitative
> approaches, e.g. combining the more technical writing and priorities
> (e.g.
> impact, and cost:benefit analyses) of academic quantitative
> researchers
> (many are economists), with the priorities (e.g. motivation,
> attitudes,
> affective responses) and more journalistic writing approach of
> qualitative
> research. If anyone has suggestions here re literature, or
> experience, I'd
> be grateful. I do have readings by Miles and Huberman; David Morgan;
> John Cresswell; Renata Tesch; and Joseph Maxwell (as well as
> references to the use of qualitative approaches in several books on
> applied research). But I haven't come across anything yet directly
> approaches the above mentioned problem. I'm leading a workshop on
> qualitative methods for my colleagues (a case of the less blind
> leading
> the more blind!) mid February, and this is something we will be
> discussing at that time. To some degree, the struggle is one of
> decreasing the credibility gap for those committed to quantitative
> approaches who question the rigour (Miles & Huberman certainly
> address that), reliability, and generally softer, fuzzier world of
> qualitative
> research. Any suggestions appreciated.
> Wendy Bancroft
>
> ----------
> >
> > (From Pat Bazeley)
> > Periodically there are queries to this list about ways of combining
> > quantitative and qualitative data, a need that occurs most often in
> > association with analysis of survey data.
>
> > email to [log in to unmask] > > Incidentally, I'm currently
> working
> on a paper looking at the issues
> > involved in combining data in this way - what it says about the
> nature
> of
> > data, what is essentially meant by qualitative analysis, and so on -
> an
> > issue which I know has been debated from time to time on this and
> other lists.
> > > Pat Bazeley
>
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