(I Can't Get No) Saturation: A simulation and guidelines for sample sizes in qualitative research.

I explore the sample size in qualitative research that is required to reach theoretical saturation. I conceptualize a population as consisting of sub-populations that contain different types of information sources that hold a number of codes. Theoretical saturation is reached after all the codes in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank J van Rijnsoever
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5528901?pdf=render