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COLLECTING designing an informed consent form, and having

the project reviewed.


QUALITATIVE DATA
2. Gatekeepers
GROUP 3:
A gatekeeper is an individual who has an offi
1. NORMA cial or unoffi cial role at the site, provides entrance
2. MARDAWATI
to a site, helps researchers locate people, and
assists in the identifi cation of places to study
3. NURDIAN ALFAHERA (Hammersley & Atkinson, 1995).
WHAT TYPES OF QUALITATIVE DATA
WHAT IS THE QUALITATIVE DATA? WILL YOU COLLECT?

Qualitative data collection is more than We can see the varied nature of qualitative forms of
simply deciding on whether you will observe or data when they are placed into the following
interview people. Five steps comprise the process of categories:
collecting qualitative data. You need to identify ◆ Observations
your participants and sites, gain access, determine
the types of data to collect, develop data collection ◆ Interviews and questionnaires
forms, and administer the process in an ethical ◆ Documents
manner.
◆ Audiovisual material
WHAT ARE THE FIVE PROCESS STEPS IN
QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTION? WHAT PROCEDURES WILL BE USED TO
RECORD DATA?
1. Sampling Approaches to Selecting Participants
and Sites Using Protocols
2. Permissions Required to Gain Access
Data recording protocols are forms designed and
3. Various Types of Qualitative Data to Collect
used by qualitative researchers to record
4. Procedures for Recording Data
information during observations and interviews.
5. Field Issues and Ethical Considerations in Data
Collection 1. An Interview Protocol
Is a form designed by the research that
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT SAMPLING
contains intructions for the process of the
APPROACHES FOR SELECTING
interview, the questions to be asked, and
PARTICIPANTS AND SITES?
space to take notes of responses from the
1. Purposeful Sampling interviewee.
Researchers intentionally select individuals 2. An Observational Protocol
and sites to learn and understand the central Is a form designed by the researcher before
phenomenon. data collection that is used for taking
Types of purposeful sampling: fieldnotes during an observation.
~ Maximal Variation Sampling WHAT FIELD AND ETHICAL ISSUES NEED
TO BE ANTICIPATED?
~Extreme Case Sampling
Field Issues
~Typical Sampling
Field research encompasses a diverse range
~Theory or Concept Sampling
of social research methods including direct
~Homogeneous Sampling observation, limited participation, analysis of
documents and other information, informal
~Critical Sampling interviews, surveys etc. Although field research is
~Opportunistic Sampling generally characterized as qualitative research, it
often involves multiple aspects of quantitative
~Snowball Sampling research in it.
~Confi rming and Disconfirming Sampling
Ethical Issues
2. Sample Size or Number of Research Sites
Results: The major ethical issues in conducting
WHAT TYPES OF PERMISSION WILL BE research are: a) Informed consent, b) Beneficence-
REQUIRED TO GAIN ACCESS TO Do not harm c) Respect for anonymity and
PARTICIPANTS AND SITES? confidentiality d) Respect for privacy.

1. Seek Institutional Review Board Approval


These steps include seeking permission from
the board, developing a description of the project,

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