William G. Axinn, Lisa D. Pearce, Axinn William G.

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on a broad range of social data collection methods to formulate a set of data collection approaches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521855686
• ISBN-10: 0521855683
• Artikelnr.: 22695379

Autorenporträt

William G. Axinn is a Sociologist Demographer and Research Professor at the Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has directed the Population and Ecology Research Laboratory in Nepal for thirteen years. In the United States he is co-Principal Investigator of the Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children (a 31-year longitudinal study) and Deputy Director of the National Survey of Family Growth (a national repeated cross-section study of US families conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Motivations for mixed method social research
2. Fitting data collection methods to research aims
3. The micro-demographic community study approach
4. Systematic anomalous case analysis
5. Neighborhood history calendars
6. Life history calendars
7. Longitudinal data collection
8. Conclusion.