Analyzing and Interpreting Ethnographic Data |
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| Author:
| LeCompte, Margaret Diane
Schensul, Jean J. |
| Series title: | Ethnographer's Toolkit Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7619-8974-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Publisher: | AltaMira Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.95 |
Book Description:
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Book Five of the Ethnographer's Toolkit series provides the reader with a variety of methods for transforming piles of fieldnotes, observations, audio and videotapes, questionnaires, surveys, documents, maps, and other kinds of data into research results that help people understand their world more fully and facilitate problem solving. Using methods common to qualitative and quantitative methods, this slim volume discusses ways of organizing, retrieving, rendering manageable, and...
More DescriptionBook Five of the Ethnographer's Toolkit series provides the reader with a variety of methods for transforming piles of fieldnotes, observations, audio and videotapes, questionnaires, surveys, documents, maps, and other kinds of data into research results that help people understand their world more fully and facilitate problem solving. Using methods common to qualitative and quantitative methods, this slim volume discusses ways of organizing, retrieving, rendering manageable, and interpreting the data through everything from simple statistics to narratives, graphic representation to triangulation. The volume keeps a continuous focus on producing results that can be used in policy and programmatic settings.