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THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA
The Mass Observation Project, established in 1937, documents the lives of ordinary people living in the UK, and explores a wide range of social issues. The Project distributes a set of written questions (“Directives”) to a panel of 500 members of the British public (“Observers”) three times each yea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6845671/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2778 |
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description | The Mass Observation Project, established in 1937, documents the lives of ordinary people living in the UK, and explores a wide range of social issues. The Project distributes a set of written questions (“Directives”) to a panel of 500 members of the British public (“Observers”) three times each year; “Observers” respond in writing. From the initial commissioning of a “Directive” to data becoming available for analysis takes between four to six months. This approach offers researchers an opportunity to capture in-depth qualitative data from individuals with a range of demographic backgrounds who live across the UK. As there are no word limits on “Observers’” responses and they remain anonymous, a “Directive” often yields rich, high-quality data. Additionally, compared with alternative methods of collecting large volumes of qualitative data from a heterogeneous population, commissioning a “Directive” is cost-effective in terms of time and resource. |
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spelling | pubmed-68456712019-11-18 THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA Eost-Telling, Charlotte L Kingston, Paul Taylor, Louise Bailey, Jan Innov Aging Session 3490 (Symposium) The Mass Observation Project, established in 1937, documents the lives of ordinary people living in the UK, and explores a wide range of social issues. The Project distributes a set of written questions (“Directives”) to a panel of 500 members of the British public (“Observers”) three times each year; “Observers” respond in writing. From the initial commissioning of a “Directive” to data becoming available for analysis takes between four to six months. This approach offers researchers an opportunity to capture in-depth qualitative data from individuals with a range of demographic backgrounds who live across the UK. As there are no word limits on “Observers’” responses and they remain anonymous, a “Directive” often yields rich, high-quality data. Additionally, compared with alternative methods of collecting large volumes of qualitative data from a heterogeneous population, commissioning a “Directive” is cost-effective in terms of time and resource. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6845671/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2778 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session 3490 (Symposium) Eost-Telling, Charlotte L Kingston, Paul Taylor, Louise Bailey, Jan THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA |
title | THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA |
title_full | THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA |
title_fullStr | THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA |
title_full_unstemmed | THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA |
title_short | THE METHODOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA |
title_sort | methodological relevance of mass observation data |
topic | Session 3490 (Symposium) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6845671/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2778 |
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