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Despite the growing acknowledgement that complex social phenomena can be usefully understood through multiple methods of inquiry, there are few sound examples of mixed-methods research. This paper offers concrete examples from recent policy research in the United States about how qualitative and quantitative methods can be combined to better address complex research questions. Using a conceptual framework developed in 1985 and recently elaborated, we describe how, in both the design and analysis phases of research, combing methods can enhance the research purposes ofcorroborating, elaborating, developing, andinitiating understandings of social phenomena.
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Rossman, G.B., Wilson, B.L. Numbers and words revisited: Being “shamelessly eclectic”. Qual Quant 28, 315–327 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01098947
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