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This is a qualitative teaching data collection. Dr Jo Haynes (Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol) has been using numerous data collections from ESDS Qualidata to support her teaching of qualitative research methods for several years. A key motivation was her desire to provide students with data, enabling more teaching time to focus on developing skills in data analysis. SN 5271 has been used in this way. This collection represents the subset of interviews specifically selected for teaching purposes. The British Migrants in Spain: the Extent and Nature of Social Integration, 2003-2005: Teaching Data study is based on British Migrants in Spain: the Extent and Nature of Social Integration, 2003-2005 (available under SN 5271). The teaching data collection is a subset of the interviews in SN 5271 and was created for learning and teaching purposes. The interviews comprising the teaching data collection were selected based on criteria such as the data quality and the ability to divide the data collection into subsamples of a manageable size (e.g. by participant characteristics, geography, or other features) for student projects. Characteristics used to define this subset were gender and employment status (retired, self-employed and employee). Students were then asked to write 4,000 word reports based on their analyses of these subsamples. Dr Haynes believes that the key benefits of re-using data for students are the opportunities to evaluate critically the design, execution and conclusions of the original study and to practice developing their own new rationales for reinterpreting data. Her presentation included in the user guide, entitled The Use of Qualidata Datasets in PG Unit, contains more examples of data used, details on how to use the materials for teaching, and examples of original research questions paired with students' new research questions. Further information is available in the study documentation (below) which includes the original data collection user guide and additional notes for teachers.
Main Topics:
Main topics include: social and economic integration; political integration; reasons for migration; language difficulties; schooling; work situation; health and fitness; official registration.
Quasi-random (eg random walk) sample
Volunteer sample
Snowball sampling was also used to find respondents. Interviews were with British (and some other E
Face-to-face interview
