Representativeness of Qualitative Surveys
<p>The author challenges the widely held belief that qualitative surveys (in-depth interviews and focus groups) will never be considered as a representative study. The origins of this erroneous, according to the author, point of view is an incorrect transfer of criteria for the representativen...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
2023-03-01
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| author | Sergey Alexandrovich Belanovskiy |
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| description | <p>The author challenges the widely held belief that qualitative surveys (in-depth interviews and focus groups) will never be considered as a representative study. The origins of this erroneous, according to the author, point of view is an incorrect transfer of criteria for the representativeness of quantitative studies to qualitative ones. The article formulates a mathematical statement the task of determining a representative sample of qualitative surveys. The article provides the solution of the task taking into account relevant constraints. It is shown that under certain conditions representative sample of qualitatively study may be 15–40 respondents, which corresponds to research practice based on empirical criteria for sufficiency.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c38744be71c74b268b6f6558a9e94eba2023-04-13T10:18:05ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied SociologyИнтеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация2687-04012023-03-01151699410.19181/inter.2023.15.1.45974Representativeness of Qualitative SurveysSergey Alexandrovich Belanovskiy0Russia<p>The author challenges the widely held belief that qualitative surveys (in-depth interviews and focus groups) will never be considered as a representative study. The origins of this erroneous, according to the author, point of view is an incorrect transfer of criteria for the representativeness of quantitative studies to qualitative ones. The article formulates a mathematical statement the task of determining a representative sample of qualitative surveys. The article provides the solution of the task taking into account relevant constraints. It is shown that under certain conditions representative sample of qualitatively study may be 15–40 respondents, which corresponds to research practice based on empirical criteria for sufficiency.</p>https://www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/inter/article/view/5974/5800samplingpopulationrecruitingrepresentativenessqualitative researchqualitative surveystheoretical saturationin-depth interviewsfocus groups |
| spellingShingle | Sergey Alexandrovich Belanovskiy Representativeness of Qualitative Surveys Интеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация sampling population recruiting representativeness qualitative research qualitative surveys theoretical saturation in-depth interviews focus groups |
| title | Representativeness of Qualitative Surveys |
| title_full | Representativeness of Qualitative Surveys |
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| title_short | Representativeness of Qualitative Surveys |
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| topic | sampling population recruiting representativeness qualitative research qualitative surveys theoretical saturation in-depth interviews focus groups |
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