You are an ethnographer studying poverty in Chicago. Over the course of your research, you live in a low-rent apartment, join a number of social clubs, and take several jobs in the community. The total time you spend on this project takes several years. Given what you know about ethnography and proper data analysis, when should you analyze your data?

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Clark Tapia

4 July, 23:22

You are an ethnographer studying poverty in Chicago. Over the course of your research, you live in a low-rent apartment, join a number of social clubs, and take several jobs in the community. The total time you spend on this project takes several years. Given what you know about ethnography and proper data analysis, when should you analyze your data?

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Chandler Hull · Answer 1

As an ethnographer you should analyze your data as soon as you have collected it.

Explanation:

If the ethnographer waits until the end of the project he or she will have a huge amount of data to process, which will make it impossible to make an appropriate analysis. What is more, cualitative analysis require notes from context and it is impossible to remember little details of events that happened years ago.