William G. Axinn, Lisa D. Pearce

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2006, 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: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780521671712
• ISBN-10: 052167171X
• Artikelnr.: 22714724

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.