Whose Data Are They Anyway? Practical, Legal and Ethical Issues in Archiving Qualitative Research Data

Whose Data Are They Anyway? Practical, Legal and Ethical Issues in Archiving Qualitative Research Data

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This journal explains how social scientists are becoming encouraged to locate, access, and analyze data from data archives worldwide. It talks about how the vast majority of data archives which service the research community deal exclusively with the storage and provision of quantitative data. It explains how facilities exist for the deposit and reuse of qualitative data. In the journal, it brings up a point of how archiving is generally understood as relatively unproblematic by the quantitative research community. There is much concern stems from the assumption that qualitative data are similar to and may, therefore, be treated in the same way as quantitative data. A discussion is made about the arching of qualitative data raises a distinct set of issues surrounding confidentiality, respondent and researcher anonymity, and respondent consent. There is examination of the practical, legal and ethical issues which may affect the archiving of qualitative research data, which in doing so it reflects on the viability of using qualitative data for theoretical and substantive secondary analysis. There is an importance of drawing on the experience of other disciplines.
This journal article is useful to showcase the different aspects of the practical, legal, and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data. There is much explanation in this journal article of why data archives worldwide are being search by social scientists.

Parry Odette and Mauthner Natasha S.

Sage Publications, Ltd.

2004-02

Stephen Taggart

Online Journal

Parry, Odette, and Natasha S. Mauthner. "Whose Data Are They Anyway? Practical, Legal and Ethical Issues in Archiving Qualitative Research Data." Sociology 38, no. 1 (2004): 139-52. Accessed April 13, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/42856598.