Code Saturation Versus Meaning Saturation: How Many Interviews Are Enough?
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...The concept of saturation was originally developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967) as part of their influential grounded theory approach to qualitative research, which focuses on developing sociological theory from textual 1Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2Duke University, Durham, North…...
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...Qualitative studies typically use purposively selected samples (as opposed to probability-driven samples), which seek a diverse range of “information-rich” sources (Patton, 1990) and focus more on the quality and richness of data rather than the number of participants....
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...Our study responds to calls for more methodological research on operationalizing saturation (by Francis et al., 2010; Guest et al., 2006; Morse, 2015)....
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...Most sample size recommendations for qualitative research are thus experiential or “rules of thumb” (Bryman, 2012; Guest et al., 2006; Kerr et al., 2010; Morse, 1995; Sandelowski, 1995)....
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...These results are remarkably similar to those of Guest et al. (2006), who identified that data saturation occurred between seven and 12 interviews, with many of the basic elements of themes present between Interviews 1 and 6....
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...A decade later, this situation remains, as confirmed by Guest et al. (2006), who reviewed 24 qualitative research textbooks and seven databases and found no guidelines on how to achieve saturation in purposive samples....
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...The authors concluded that the literature does a “poor job of operationalizing the concept of saturation, providing no description of how saturation might be determined and no practical guidelines for estimating sample sizes for purposively sampled interviews” (Guest et al., 2006, p. 60)....
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