Methods in Development Research
Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches
Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhanced through a more systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. While this recent interest has begun to provide useful pointers as to how development research might be improved, it has also given rise to certain problems. This book will draw together lessons about emerging best practice with regard to combining qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches to generate numbers from qualitative/participatory methods and to monitor and evaluate development processes. It will build and expand upon innovation and reflection from practice in developing and developed societies, from within development agencies and academia, government departments and civil society organizations. By drawing on current research in many sectors and countries, the book will situate current development research issues squarely within debates about development policy and social research and it will help begin the process of defining best practice in the use of participatory/ qualitative and quantitative methods, and issues of methodological triangulation which are of considerable interest to academics, practitioners and policy makers. A genuine how to manual which combines best practice and new innovations and presents fascinating material for academics, practitioners and policy makers.
Published: 2005
Pages: 304
eBook: 9781780440286
Paperback: 9781853395727
| General introduction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Context and challenges for combining methods | |||
| in development research 1 | |||
| Part I: Combining forces with qualitative and quantitative research 19 | |||
| Introduction: Bridges and fences for combined methods 21 | |||
| 1 Little white pebbles: getting the research questions right | |||
| and getting the right data 27 | |||
| MIKE JENNINGS | |||
| 2 Some practical sampling procedures for development research 37 | |||
| IAN WILSON | |||
| 3 Impact assessment of microfinance: protocol for collection | |||
| and analysis of qualitative data 53 | |||
| JAMES COPESTAKE, SUSAN JOHNSON | |||
| and KATIE WRIGHT-REVOLLEDO | |||
| 4 What determines successful sustainable development projects? | |||
| Some evidence from the PRODERS experience in Mexico 71 | |||
| GIL YARON, JUTTA BLAUERT and ALEJANDRO GUEVARA | |||
| 5 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in | |||
| evaluation-related rural tourism development research 85 | |||
| JENNIFER BRIEDENHANN and EUGENIA WICKENS | |||
| Part II: Quantifying the qualitative in development research 93 | |||
| Introduction: Reflections on quantification 95 | |||
| 6 Quantitative analysis approaches to qualitative data: | |||
| why, when and how? 97 | |||
| SAVITRI ABEYASEKERA | |||
| 7 What do you sense? Applying analytical sensory | |||
| evaluation techniques to research on | |||
| development issues 107 | |||
| QUIRIEN VAN OIRSCHOT and KEITH TOMLINS | |||
| 8 Strong fences make good neighbours: survey and | |||
| participatory appraisal methods in poverty assessment | |||
| and poverty reduction strategy monitoring 119 | |||
| SIMON APPLETON and DAVID BOOTH | |||
| Part III: The process of combination: democratizing | |||
| research, empowerment and institutional change 136 | |||
| Introduction: Combined research as process 139 | |||
| 9 Quality, quantity and the third way 141 | |||
| NIGEL GILBERT | |||
| 10 The peer ethnographic method for health research: | |||
| methodological and theoretical reflections 149 | |||
| NEIL PRICE and KIRSTAN HAWKINS | |||
| 11 Participatory indicator development for sustainable | |||
| natural resource management 163 | |||
| ANDREW DOUGILL and MARK REED | |||
| 12 Exploring the temporal logic model: a Colombian case study | |||
| evaluating assistance to internally displaced people 177 | |||
| ANDREA LAMPIS | |||
| 13 Trade-offs between management costs and research benefits: | |||
| lessons from the forest and the farm 191 | |||
| KATHRIN SCHRECKENBERG, ADRIAN BARRANCE, | |||
| ANN DEGRANDE, JAMIE GORDON, ROGER LEAKEY, | |||
| ELAINE MARSHALL, ADRIAN NEWTON and ZAC TCHOUNDJEU | |||
| 14 Evaluating democracy assistance: the inadequacy | |||
| of numbers and the promise of participation 205 | |||
| GORDON CRAWFORD | |||
| 15 Monitoring social policy outcomes in Jamaica: combined | |||
| methods, democratic research and institutional change 219 | |||
| JEREMY HOLLAND, STEADMAN NOBLE, | |||
| ANDY NORTON and KEN SIGRIST | |||
| 16 From development research to policy change: methodological | |||
| learning from a research capacity-building project 227 | |||
| TANJA BASTIA, ELEANOR FISHER, JEREMY HOLLAND | |||
| and DUNCAN HOLTOM | |||
| Glossary 239 | |||
| List of contributors 245 | |||
| Endnotes 251 | |||
| References 267 | |||
| Index 285 |
Jeremy Holland Jeremy Holland is Lecturer at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales Swansea
John Campbell Dr John R. Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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