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A first-hand account of analysing second-hand qualitative data

A first-hand account of analysing second-hand qualitative data. Sara Davies NCRM Research Methods Festival 8 th July 2014. Why analyse secondary qualitative data?. Part of SDAI bid Effective use of resources Increase capacity for answering research questions.

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A first-hand account of analysing second-hand qualitative data

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  1. A first-hand account of analysing second-hand qualitative data Sara Davies NCRM Research Methods Festival 8th July 2014 www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  2. Why analyse secondary qualitative data? • Part of SDAI bid • Effective use of resources • Increase capacity for answering research questions www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  3. Main considerations when analysing secondary qualitative data? “how contextual knowledge influences the interpretation and analysis of data” (Irwin & Winterton 2012) • Relationship between researcher and data • Are data collected or constructed? (Hammersley 2010) • Connections between multiple data sets (Haynes & Jones 2012) • Increased ‘generalizability’ of findings www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  4. How did these considerations affect our approach? • Semi structured interviews vs. ethnographic data • Relevance of context to our specific research questions • Avoided existing interpretations of data used www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  5. What data was available and relevant? • UK Data Service • Limited choice • Two datasets used: • Boomers and Beyond KeeleUni 2005 – 2007 • Adding Quality to Quantity UCL 2002 – 2007 • One data set chosen unseen www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  6. What problems did we encounter? • Lack of relevant data • Time consuming • Age of data • Distance from data www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  7. Conclusions • Analysing secondary qualitative data has limited, specific utility: better to fit research question to the data available • Hard to “get to know” participants at a distance • Could illustrate quantitative findings in this case www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

  8. Questions and further discussion • http://www.bris.ac.uk/geography/research/pfrc/esrc/ • sara.davies@bristol.ac.uk • @PFRC_Sara www.pfrc.bris.ac.uk/esrc

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