SOCI 3P02 Lecture Notes - Shy People, First Nations, Focus Group
15 Apr 2013
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In-depth interviews repeated at roughly fixed time intervals with the same people by the same research team. Retracing respondents from an earlier study originally undertaken by a different research team. How people change and respond to change* Identify changes over time: can see how, when and why the changes happened. Sensitive issues: the longer you know the interviewer the more likely you are to give more sensitive information. Establish mechanisms/processes through which an intervention did or did not work. Researcher retention: losing researchers, unlike to keep to same researcher interested. Follow up costs: expensive to follow up, flying costs. Question fatigue: people get tired of answering the same questions. Burden on the participant: a lot to ask people to be that involved in someone"s life, bringing up the past. Participants" changing circumstances: circumstances changing, beginning fit the requirements but might not always fit them. How the participant feels: feel they were represented wrong.
