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Qualitative mixed methods

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Access to qualitative mixed methods data

Qualitative data is non-numeric information, such as in-depth interview transcripts, diaries, anthropological field notes, answers to open-ended survey questions, audio-visual recordings and images. Mixed methods approaches combine qualitative data with numeric data.

Some of the key studies providing qualitative mixed methods data are listed below.

The ‘Affluent Worker’ project was undertaken to test empirically the thesis of working class embourgeoisement. The research studied the attitudes and behaviour of high wage earners in three mass or continuous flow companies.

Access Affluent Worker in the Class Structure.

This study comprises 537 life story interviews which were recorded in the 1970s with a cross-national sample of people born before 1918 in the UK. These interviews formed the basis of the first national oral history project in the United Kingdom.

Access Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918.

The Family Life of Old People study examined the growing perception that a breakdown in extended family networks was leaving old people isolated, and creating an increasing demand for residential care.

Access Family Life of Old People data.

This research focused on crime and its relation to risk of victimisation and the suggestion that high-risk groups, in particular, young men, report lower fear than low-risk groups, in particular, older women.

Access Gender Difference, Anxiety and Fear of Crime.

In the late 1950s Peter Townsend undertook a national study which investigated the provision of long-stay institutional care for old people in England and Wales. The study sought to ask “Are long stay institutions for old people necessary in our society, and, if so, what form should they take?”.

Access the Last Refuge.

The central aim of the research was to investigate the underlying premises of UK neighbourhood crime policies through a comparative study of the responses to crime and disorder within both affluent and deprived neighbourhoods, the extent and nature of informal means of social control utilised by their residents and how collective efficacy is related to social capital and social cohesion.

Access Neighbourhood Boundaries, Social Disorganisation and Social Exclusion.

This project explored the dynamics of migration in the Mediterranean region by providing a large-scale, systematic and comparative study of the backgrounds, experiences, aspirations and routes of migrants in four European countries (Italy, Greece, Malta and Turkey).

Access Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis.

This project addressed the implication of the growth in concentration in food retailing in the UK – resulting from market consolidation and small store decline over the long term – with reference to its impact on consumer choice.

Access Retail Competition and Consumer Choice data.

The Pioneers website offers an insight into the backgrounds of researchers, motivations for undertaking particular pieces of research and some interesting observations about studying sociology in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A series of interviews were carried out with the pioneering researchers themselves and will be made available on the website.

Access Pioneers of Qualitative Research.

Browse our case studies to find case studies related to qualitative or mixed methods data.

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Qualitative mixed methods

Access to qualitative mixed methods data

Affluent Worker in the Class Structure

Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918

Family Life of Old People

Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime

Last Refuge

Neighbourhood Boundaries, Social Disorganisation and Social Exclusion

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis

Retail Competition And Consumer Choice

Pioneers of Qualitative Research

Case studies

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