TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schatz, Enid
T1  - Comparing, Contextualizing, and Conceptualizing: Enhancing Quantitative Data on Women's Situation in Rural Africa
Y1  - 2003/09/19
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 143
EP  - 174
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2003.S1.5
VL  - S1
IS  - 0
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/1/0/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/1/0/s1-0.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/1/0/s1-0.pdf
N2  - Demographic research mainly focuses on objective variables found in census and survey data. As demographers' interests expand to socially constructed phenomena, the discipline needs to incorporate new tools appropriate for understanding more subjective phenomena. The integration of quantitative and qualitative methods provides the opportunity to analyze data both rich in local meaning and generalizable beyond a small "N." 

This type of triangulation is particularly necessary in the study of women's situation, an area where quantitative results have generally confounded demographers. Using survey and ethnographic data, this paper demonstrates ways in which qualitative data complements quantitative data on women's situation. I argue that such an iterative methodological process can enrich future investigations in this area by comparing findings, contextualizing quantitative results, and improving the conceptualization of future quantitative measures.

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