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Section 1 Overarching issues
- The ethics of poverty research
- Including vulnerable groups in research (children and young people; impairment and disability; HIV/AIDS; older people; conflict)
- Developing international research partnerships
Section 2 Approaches to research
- The qualitative-quantitative distinction
- Participatory approaches
- Livelihoods approaches
- Political science-influenced approaches
Section 3 Designing research
- Types of poverty-oriented research
- Selecting a unit of analysis
Section 4 Research methods
- Focus group discussions
- Interviews
- Life histories
- Participatory methods
- Choosing which methods to use
- Combining methods and triangulation
Section 5 Analysing data
- Coding and analysis of focus groups
- Quantitative analysis
- Including, Sample surveys and their analysis; Testing and adjusting for attrition in Household Panel Data; Creating and Interpreting Contour plots using DASP and GNUPLOT
Section 6 Dissemination
Section 7 Impact assessment
Section 8 Resources
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1 | Full Methods Toolbox | 1057.8 KB | |
2 | Section 1: Overarching issues | 193.7 KB | |
3 | Section 2: Approaches to research | 495.2 KB | |
4 | - 2.1 Qualitative-quantitative | 93.0 KB | |
5 | - 2.2 Participatory approaches | 26.3 KB | |
6 | - 2.3 Livelihoods approaches | 273.3 KB | |
7 | - 2.4 Political science-influenced | 224.8 KB | |
8 | Section 4: Research methods | 272.0 KB | |
9 | - 4.1 Focus groups | 91.0 KB | |
10 | - 4.2 Interviews | 113.7 KB | |
11 | - 4.3 Life histories | 57.0 KB | |
12 | - 4.4 Participatory methods | 25.4 KB | |
13 | - 4.5 Choosing methods | 88.5 KB | |
14 | - 4.6 Combining methods | 6.6 KB | |
15 | Section 3: Designing research | 42.0 KB | |
16 | Section 5: Analysing data | 111.2 KB | |
17 | - 5.1 Focus groups analysis | 58.1 KB | |
18 | - 5.2 Quantitative analysis | 87.9 KB | |
19 | Section 6: Dissemination | 22.7 KB | |
20 | Section 7: Impact assessment | 104.9 KB | |
21 | Section 8: Resources | 306.4 KB |