Mixed method questionnaire
This study utilised an empirical realist framework of scientific enquiry, with the ‘soft’ individual interview data seen as an adjunct to the ‘hard’ aggregate quantitative methods.
In this study, the interview techniques could have been used differently, in a different framework of analysis (that of critical rather than empirical realism) without the support of other mixed methods.
Resource centrea resource centre for food risk and benefit communication about evaluate your situationunderstand your audiencecreate your messagemedia channelsmonitor communicationspublic continuing to browse this site you agree to us using cookies as described in about cookies remove maintenance message go to old article view abstracta mixed method approach was adopted to study the experiences of lonefathers, using a classic triangulation approach of interview and questionnaire data.
A review of this study found that the interviews worked well as a pilot study in a classic mixed methods framework.
The questionnaires provided a range of information about thecharacteristics of this group of lone fathers, but it was the interviews which provided astonishing depth on the causes of marital breakdown and post‐marital conflict, and on the discourses and other structures which sustain social processes.