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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Main Authors:	Ashwin, ,Julian, Rao, Vijayendra, Biradavolu, Monica, Haque, Arshia, Khan, Afsana, Krishnan, Nandini, Peer, Nagy
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	ROHINGYA REFUGEE INTERVIEWS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WELL-BEING RESEARCH NARRATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS ASPIRATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS INEQUALITY INCLUSION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099759305162210822/IDU0a357362e00b6004c580966006b1c2f2e3996 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37453

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spelling	okr-10986-374532022-05-19T05:10:33Z Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh Ashwin, ,Julian Rao, Vijayendra Biradavolu, Monica Haque, Arshia Khan, Afsana Krishnan, Nandini Peer, Nagy ROHINGYA REFUGEE INTERVIEWS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WELL-BEING RESEARCH NARRATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS ASPIRATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS INEQUALITY INCLUSION 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. 2022-05-18T20:11:00Z 2022-05-18T20:11:00Z 2022-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099759305162210822/IDU0a357362e00b6004c580966006b1c2f2e3996 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37453 English Policy Research Working Papers;10046 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Bangladesh
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topic	ROHINGYA REFUGEE INTERVIEWS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WELL-BEING RESEARCH NARRATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS ASPIRATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS INEQUALITY INCLUSION
spellingShingle	ROHINGYA REFUGEE INTERVIEWS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WELL-BEING RESEARCH NARRATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS ASPIRATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS INEQUALITY INCLUSION Ashwin, ,Julian Rao, Vijayendra Biradavolu, Monica Haque, Arshia Khan, Afsana Krishnan, Nandini Peer, Nagy Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Ashwin, ,Julian Rao, Vijayendra Biradavolu, Monica Haque, Arshia Khan, Afsana Krishnan, Nandini Peer, Nagy
author_facet	Ashwin, ,Julian Rao, Vijayendra Biradavolu, Monica Haque, Arshia Khan, Afsana Krishnan, Nandini Peer, Nagy
author_sort	Ashwin, ,Julian
title	Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
title_short	Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
title_full	Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
title_fullStr	Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed	Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
title_sort	qualitative analysis at scale : an application to aspirations in cox's bazaar, bangladesh
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099759305162210822/IDU0a357362e00b6004c580966006b1c2f2e3996 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37453
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Qualitative Analysis at Scale : An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh

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