Research Methods

EthnoNotes is extraordinarily flexible and well-suited to a wide range of methodological approaches.

As professional social science researchers ourselves, we understand that your ideas, theories, and data are the core of your work. You want your software and methods to be as easy and as transparent as possible so that you can focus on your data, your ideas, and your results. EthnoNotes was designed to allow flexible application to your approach of choice. Powerful and packed with features, EthnoNotes is transparent and logical. Using EthnoNotes as your tool does not force you toward a particular approach to dealing with your data. Your methods guide the way and EthnoNotes easily helps you systematically approach your data with ease, efficiency, flexibility, and sophistication.

Learn more about how EthnoNotes can assist you with:

• Qualitative Research
• Integrated Qualitative - Quantitative ("Mixed Methods") Research
• Teaching using text data from fieldwork or interview methods
• Business reports
• Focus groups

Qualitative Research

Qualitative researchers study text and context. They collect interviews, write descriptions of people and contexts, observe behavior, tape and summarize focus groups. Qualitative data are easily entered into EthnoNotes by importing, cutting and pasting from word processor documents, or direct typing. Qualitative data are easily indexed, coded, highlighted, time stamped and organized in any of the ways researchers prefer. If qualitative data are linked to individuals or cases in a study, quantitative data on those individuals or cases are readily linked to the qualitative data and fully integrated within EthnoNotes for data exploration from either direction.

Integrated Qualitative - Quantitative ("Mixed Methods") Research

Mixed methods research combines numbers and text, qualitative and quantitative data. EthnoNotes is designed for the seamless integration of these kinds of data. Mixed methods researchers use increasingly creative designs to approach their research questions. Interviews, observations, focus groups, tests, and surveys may all be used in a mixed methods project and may be employed sequentially, simultaneously, or iteratively. EthnoNotes is ready to receive and integrate these data no matter what approach is taken. At its core, EthnoNotes was designed to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of these complex data sets in straightforward, transparent, flexible, and powerful ways without inhibiting the researcher’s preferred perspective or approach or, for that matter, any alternative you wish to take in the midst of your work.