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Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research

How is it Done

Author : Bryman, A.

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Place of Publish: London

Year: 2006

Series: Qualitative Research 2006; 6; 97 DOI: 10.1177/1468794106058877 The online version: http://qrj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/1/97

Acc. No: 730-S

Category: Soft Documents

Type of Resource: qualitative research, quantitative research, mixed-methods research, multi-strategy research, typologies

Languages: No

ISBN: English

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This article seeks to move beyond typologies of the ways in which quantitative and qualitative research are integrated to an examination of the ways that they are combined in practice. The article is based on a content analysis of 232 social science articles in which the two were combined. An examination of the research methods and research designs employed suggests that on the quantitative side structured interview and questionnaire research within a cross-sectional design tends to predominate, while on the qualitative side the semi-structured interview within a cross-sectional design tends to predominate. An examination of the rationales that are given for employing a mixed-methods research approach and the ways it is used in practice indicates that the two do not always correspond. The implications of this finding for how we think about mixed-methods research are outlined.
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