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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 475-482Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077800410364740
Keywords
mixed methods; numerical data
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The use of numerical/quantitative data in qualitative research studies and reports has been controversial. Prominent qualitative researchers such as Howard Becker and Martyn Hammersley have supported the inclusion of what Becker called quasi-statistics: simple counts of things to make statements such as some, usually, and most more precise. However, others have resisted such uses, particularly when they are requested by reviewers for journals. This paper presents both the advantages of integrating quantitative information in qualitative data collection, analysis, and reporting, and the potential problems created by such uses and how these can be dealt with. It also addresses the definition of mixed methods research, arguing that the use of numbers by itself doesn't make a study mixed methods.
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