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Reasoning with case studies
— issues of an aging workforce | | Author(s) | Victor W Marshall |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 4, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 377-390 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Case studies ; Interpretation ; Methodology ; Canada ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Case studies are ideal for generating in-depth and contextualised data. Many specific data collection approaches can be incorporated to gather data through a case study, but information so gathered is interpreted in terms of a single case. When a set of case studies is conducted on a particular research theme, the question arises as to what kinds of inferences can be made with a small number of cases. Problems of inference are increased when the cases have been selected opportunistically or haphazardly, and when the universe of all potential cases cannot readily be defined. This article describes ways in which inferences can be drawn, and the nature of such inferences from a multiple case approach. Reasoning from multiple case studies is an inductive process which uses comparisons to generate hypotheses and to provide limited tests through the principle of falsification. This approach was used in developing a synthesising report based on 7 large case studies (5 Canadian and 2 American) from the project, "Issues of an aging workforce", in which use of qualitative methods (focus groups and key informant interviews) and survey data from employees and managers is demonstrated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000120217 A |
| Classmark | GC: 69P: 4CC: 3D: 7S: 7T |
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