qualitative data

qualitative data

1. participant obervations.

   • advantages : limted chnages of bahviour lower hortorn , high in vaidlity, vershan , strong acesse , limtied equitment
   • disadvnatges ; ganing acesse to the group, going native , ethical issues, commitment and time, is the data repsentive, risk, social charictists are kay.

2. Ethnographic study

   • advantages ; oberservation of people in their enviorment , vershain , rich in vaildity, hostic understanding, emapthy can be achived
   • disadvantge; lack of reliability, ethcal issues , acsses could be hard, insider view required , based of storys, small scale.

3. unstuctured interviews

   • disadvntages : time consuiming, horthorn effect , social charictist important, lack of relibility, small number of people, skill of the interviewr, sitting is important.
   • advantages : ability ot gain empathy , fexlvaibity, repour can be created , rich in vaildity, additional info can be asked

4. focus groups

   • disadvantges : diffcult to record data , may not disclouse info , horthorn effect , can be domianted
   • advantges : issues can be explored that otherwise woudl reamin hidden , encourage a wide range of of respondents, tailored to peoples needs, promote debate , empower perticpants.

5. personal documents

   • disadvantges :weather they are cerdiable , how repersentive are they , interpertation.
   • advantges : chep and easy , perminat , check by other researchers.