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I am beginning a work about qualitative analysis for population studies. At first sight, it may sound a little odd to use a qualitative approach to study phenomena like fertility, mortality, migration and more generally for topics related to demography, which mainly deals with high number of people. I have the feeling that most users of qualitative softwares, which deal with huge amounts of qualitative data, are overall sociologists, psychologists and/or anthropologists, and very few are demography-oriented, as far as this distinction between disciplines is meaningfull. But at the same time, innovative studies are underway in this area which some people call "qualitative demography". I wonder whether these questions are of any interest to you. If ever you know publications or studies about that, I would be very interested. Thanks. Myriam de Loenzien Institute of Research for Development (IRD, Paris) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%