Preposition: as

• matter: More recently, this increased power in handling data has become as much a qualitative as a quantitative matter.

Used with adjective complement

• include: Will the trial include qualitative as well as quantitative elements?

Modifies a noun

• methodology: Each measure will then be assessed for face validity using qualitative methodology.

• method: The third research string is in qualitative research methods.

• analysis: Data is being analyzed using a software package for qualitative analysis.

• research: Qualitative research usually involves looking at language rather than numbers.

• datum: Quantitative data Qualitative data Based on meanings derived from numbers.

• interview: Third, the data they use varies from detailed qualitative interviews to opinion surveys.

Modifying Another Word

• predominantly: Focus group discussion provides predominantly qualitative data that is suitable to stimulate creative designing activities.

• essentially: Problems of economic policy also involve political and ethical criteria that are essentially qualitative in nature.

• mainly: The open-ended questions provided mainly qualitative data in relation to the research question.

• primarily: The nature of the research methodology, as primarily qualitative, raises different issues from those appropriate to a quantitative study.

• largely: The new study will try to apply participatory techniques to obtain more quantitative as well as these largely qualitative indicators of impact.

• also: See also qualitative quotation To repeat ( quote ) words that someone else has written.

Preposition: in

• nature: METHODOLOGY Research design The research approach was qualitative in nature.