Qualitative Documents

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Qualitavtice Documents

Advantages

  • Cheap
  • Quick to access
  • Give researcher insight
  • Background information
  • Generate ideas for study
  • Extra checks on primary results
  • Only avaliable source for information

Disadvantages

  • Authenticity
  • Credibility
  • Representativeness
  • Meaning
  • Acess to Government restricted reports 30 year release of senstivie documents
  • Informed consent could be a problem for personal documents

Evaluation

Qualitative documents give a researcher a good understanding of the past generating ideas and are cheap to access. However the documents may be difficult to check their reliability and how factual they are. Informed consent could also be a problem with documents such as diaries if the person who wrote it has passed away.

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