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Define qualitative method of analysis in child labour

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Using Qualitative Methods with Poor Children in UrbanEthiopia: Opportunities & ChallengesBethlehem Tekola ÆChristine Griffin ÆLaura CamfieldAccepted: 13 August 2008Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008Abstract This paper discusses the advantages and challenges of using qualitativemethods to elicit poor children’s perspectives about threats and positive influences on theirwellbeing. It draws on research carried out by the author on the subjective experiences ofpoor children in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia in terms of their understandings ofwellbeing, threats to their wellbeing, coping strategies, and positive or resilient outcomes.After a brief introduction reviewing previous approaches to child poverty in general andresearch on Ethiopian children in particular, the second section describes the researchsetting and the ethical approach to the study, which influenced how consent was obtainedand the data analysed. The paper then describes the use of qualitative methods such assemi-structured interviews, draw-and-tell, and diaries, the kinds of data they produced andthe methodological and ethical dilemmas and tensions encountered in using them. Itconcludes that despite the challenges qualitative methods are invaluable in order tounderstand what poor children see as threats and positive influences on their wellbeing.Keywords Addis Ababa Kolfe Children Poverty Wellbeing1 IntroductionWith some risk of generalization, we can identify two types of studies in relation tochildren who live in poverty: studies that look at the consequences of economic poverty forchildren’s health and development and those that focus on the occurrence and causes ofchild poverty within and across countries. The first group of studies have been conductedespecially among psychologists and public health scholars in the United States. Untilrecently, the focus of these studies has been on describing the negative effects of povertyon children’s outcomes. Recently, however, studies in this tradition have started to look atcausal processes (McLoyd 1998; H