Qualitative or Quantitative? Data Archiving in Documentation, Research and Teaching

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  • Dominique Joye Swiss Data Archive for the Social Sciences (SIDOS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-6.2.462

Keywords:

archiving

Abstract

In this article some of the conceptual and technical issues relating to data archiving in relation to documentation, research, and teaching are discussed. From a meta-perspective, there are a number of similarities between qualitative and quantitative data treatment but, on closer inspection, some important differences can be identified, which are due in part to different goals of each approach, and in part to different technical demands inherent in the diverse data. Overall, however, the proximity and complementarity of both approaches reveal important synergies and possibilities in research and teaching, for which archives can play an instrumental role. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0502394

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Author Biography

Dominique Joye, Swiss Data Archive for the Social Sciences (SIDOS)

Dominique JOYE. Present position: Director of the Swiss Data Archive for the Social Sciences (SIDOS) and Associate Professor at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Major research areas: inequalities; methodology; surveys quality.

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Published

2005-05-31

How to Cite

Joye, D. (2005). Qualitative or Quantitative? Data Archiving in Documentation, Research and Teaching. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-6.2.462

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Part 2: The Why and How of Archiving Qualitative Data