Toward full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities

Mason, Will, Morris, Kate, Webb, Calum, Daniels, Brigid, Featherstone, Brid, Bywaters, Paul, Mirza, Nughmana, Hooper, Jade, Brady, Geraldine, Bunting, Lisa and Scourfield, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8158 2020. Toward full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 14 (2) , pp. 164-183. 10.1177/1558689819857972

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Abstract

Delineation of the full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods throughout all stages of multisite mixed methods case study projects remains a gap in the methodological literature. This article offers advances to the field of mixed methods by detailing the application and integration of mixed methods throughout all stages of one such project; a study of child welfare inequalities. By offering a critical discussion of site selection and the management of confirmatory, expansionary and discordant data, this article contributes to the limited body of mixed methods exemplars specific to this field. We propose that our mixed methods approach provided distinctive insights into a complex social problem, offering expanded understandings of the relationship between poverty, child abuse, and neglect.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1558-6898
Funders:	The Nuffield Foundation
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 July 2019
Date of Acceptance:	26 May 2019
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 18:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/124104

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