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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHOD : (SPECIFIC USES OF DOCUMENTS (case of text…
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHOD :
SPECIFIC USES OF DOCUMENTS
case of text provideing context
Documents can provide data
Documents provide background information
Documents provide historical insight
Contextualise data collected during interviews
Documents provide supplementary research data
Browse library catalogues and archives for documents
Analyse journal entries and memos
Documents provide a means of tracking change and development
Documents can be analysed as a way to verify findings
ADVANTAGES
Cost-effectiveness
Lack of obtrusiveness and reactivity
Availability
Efficient Method
Stability
Exactness
Coverage
DOCUMENT ANALYSIS
Systematic procedure for reviewing
Evaluating documents
Documents contain text
Documents as "social facts"
Used for systematic evaluation
Agendas
Advertisements
Registers
Attendance
Minutes of a meetings
Books and brochures
Letters and memoranda
Aplication forms and summaries
Analytic procedure
RATIONALE FOR DOCUMENTS ANALYSIS
To seek convergence and corroboration
Different data sources and methods
Sources of evidence
Participant or non-participant observation
Triangulation helps researcher against accusation
Combined qualitative and quantitative methods
Surveys
Open-ended
Semistructured interviews with review documents
Questionnaires combined with interviews
Uncover meaning
Develop understanding
Discover insight relevant to the research
Ethnographic case study
Observation
Compliment to other research methods
Stand alone method
Role in methodological an d data triangulation
The immense value of documents in case study
Understandability
LIMITATIONS
Low retrievability
Biased selectivity
Insufficient detail
ANALYSING DOCUMENTS
Identify pertinent information
focused re-reading and reviews of data
Organising information
Interview transcripts
Skimming,reading and interpretation
Raw data from organisational documents
EVALUATING THE EVIDENCE
Determine the relevance of documents
Original purpose of the documents
Identify the design
Develop understanding
Lift words and passages from available documents
Illustrate thr application of documents
GROUNDED THEORY
Community-based organisation
Social and economic infrastracture
Social Investment
Non-government organisations
local government
form of report in newspaper,traade journals
Business journals