Improving the quality of development research: What could archiving qualitative data for reanalysis and revisiting research sites contribute?

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 323-338

  Camfield, Laura ^a   Palmer Jones, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

archiving; data quality; qualitative; revisits; Secondary analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; DEVELOPMENT THEORY; RESEARCH;

EID: 84883033310     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464993413490481     Document Type: Article

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