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Secondary Qualitative Analysis in the Family Sciences
Author(s) -
Anderson Leslie A.,
Paulus Trena M.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/fcsr.12403
Subject(s) - observational study , observational methods in psychology , data collection , extant taxon , qualitative property , computer science , data science , reuse , qualitative research , process (computing) , management science , sociology , mathematics , engineering , social science , statistics , evolutionary biology , machine learning , biology , waste management , operating system
Sharing and reusing data can help researchers answer new questions and approach data from different analytical perspectives. The extant literature on data sharing has focused almost exclusively on qualitative data specifically, such as interviews and focus groups. Observational and video data capturing family interactions are a common data collection method in family science research. While quantitative analytic approaches are common, observational and video data can lend itself well to qualitative analysis. This paper introduces a secondary data analysis approach, referred to as methodological expansion, which involves the process of qualitatively analyzing pre‐existing data that were collected for quantitative research purposes.