A Mixed-Methods Approach

Abstract

The study has a mixed-methods research design. It combines data from a structured survey with data obtained from 14 in-depth interviews with university-educated second-generation Moroccan Dutch and Turkish Dutch. The survey was conducted in the context of the TIES research project, prior to this study. The two different methods complement each other in valuable ways and are used in various constellations throughout the study. The chapter explains how results of qualitative interpretivist studies, which are based on small samples, can be generalized in various ways. In addition, it argues how quantitative methods, which are generally used within more objectivist and positivist research traditions, can be used within a more interpretivist perspective and can be even used for the deconstruction of concepts such as ethnic identity, as illustrated in Chap. 5. The chapter furthermore describes the details of the quantitative data collection and the qualitative data collection and analysis.