Qualitative Interviewing of Respondents in Large Representative Surveys

Analyzing Second-Generation Trajectories from a Life Course Approach: What Mixed Methods Can Offer

“…Another drawback lies in the difficulty of linking the quantitative to the qualitative data because the respondents to the qualitative interviews were not sampled from the survey data. The qualitative interviewing of respondents already selected in large representative panel surveys could offer a real opportunity (Groh-Samberg and Tucci 2010). Such a survey design was conducted in a research project that started at the end of 2014: a sample of 26 respondents to the SOEP survey, whose parents are immigrants, were interviewed qualitatively in order to obtain a narrative on the respondent's life course and to integrate more directly the quantitative and qualitative data (Legewie and Tucci 2008).…”