Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
Qualitative work has found limited use in economics largely because it is difficult to analyze at scale due to the careful reading of text and human coding it requires. This paper presents a framework with which to extend a small set of hand-coding...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099759305162210822/IDU0a357362e00b6004c580966006b1c2f2e3996 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37453 |
| Summary: | Qualitative work has found limited
use in economics largely because it is difficult to analyze
at scale due to the careful reading of text and human coding
it requires. This paper presents a framework with which to
extend a small set of hand-coding to a much larger set of
documents using natural language processing and thus to
analyze qualitative data at scale. The paper shows how to
assess the robustness and reliability of this approach and
demonstrates that it can allow the identification of
meaningful patterns in the data that the original hand-coded
sample is too small to identify. The approach is applied to
data collected among Rohingya refugees and their Bangladeshi
hosts in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, to build on work in
anthropology and philosophy that distinguishes between
ambition–specific goals, aspiration–transforming values, and
navigational capacity, which is the ability to achieve
ambitions and aspirations. The findings demonstrate that
these distinctions can have important policy implications. |
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