Mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability [[electronic resource] ] : sharing ideas and learning lessons / / edited by Keetie Roelen, Laura Camfield

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/69072
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; Social sciences; Development economics; Poverty; Development Theory; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Development Economics; Development Studies; Development Aid; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
• Classificazione: SOC024000SOC042000SOC045000
• Persona (resp. second.): RoelenKeetie; CamfieldLaura
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1: Introduction""; ""Background""; ""Credibility""; ""Complexity""; ""Usability""; ""This volume""; ""References""; ""Section I: Poverty Measurement""; ""2: Mixed Methods in Poverty Measurement: Qualitative Perspectives on the ?Necessities of Life? in the 2012 PSE-UK Survey""; ""Introduction""; ""Mixed methods approaches in poverty research: Bridging the methodological divide?""; ""The logic of mixed methods enquiry"" ; ""Mixed methods in poverty research""""Quantifying the ?necessities of life? in Britain""; ""What is the consensual approach to poverty measurement?""; ""Quantifying the ?necessities of life? in the 2012 PSE-UK study""; ""Qualitative perspectives on the ?necessities of life ?in Britain""; ""What are the applications of focus group methods in the 2012 PSE-UK study?""; ""What then can qualitative methods contribute in understanding public views on necessities?""; ""Methodological issues in determining consensus""; ""Cognition issues in determining the ?necessities of life?"" ; ""Need, entitlement and the abstract individual""""Discussion and conclusions""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""3: Deprivation and Social Citizenship: The Objective Significance of Lived Experience""; ""Introduction""; ""Towards a new analytical framework for measuring deprivation""; ""The nexus between deprivation and citizenship""; ""The objective significance of lived experience""; ""Lived experiences of deprivation: An integrated mixed methods approach""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References"" ; ""4: Bringing Context to Poverty in Rural Rwanda: Added Value and Challenges of Mixed Methods Approaches""""Introduction""; ""Bridging the divide in poverty research""; ""Mixed methods research for bridging the divide""; ""The application of mixed methods to research rural wellbeing in Rwanda""; ""Results and discussion""; ""Initial qualitative exploration""; ""Quantitative representation of heterogeneity in sample population""; ""Further qualitative analysis: Relational and subjective wellbeing and causes of change""; ""Reflections on the application of integrated mixed methods"" ; ""Conclusions""""Note""; ""References""; ""5: Measuring the Resilience of Rural Households in Burkina Faso""; ""Introduction""; ""Conceptual background""; ""Resilience: More than ?bouncing back?""; ""Links between ?resilience? and ?food security?""; ""Application of mixed methods to ?resilience?""; ""Methodological approach""; ""Overview""; ""Scope of the study sample""; ""Estimating household?s food security levels (outcome indicator)""; ""Developing and measuring quantitative process indicators of resilience""; ""Exploring enabling factors""; ""Data analysis""; ""Limitations of the study"" ; ""Results""
• Sommario/riassunto: The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity. .
• Titolo autorizzato: Mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability
• ISBN: 1-137-45251-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797654103321
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