Some of its many findings have shown how childhood factors such as poverty and birth weight can affect health and success at school as children get older. For example, the Millennium Cohort Study has been keeping track of more than 11,000 children born between 20.

They can employ both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and they follow the same group of people over time. Longitudinal studies follow the same respondents over an extended period of time. If the same or similar survey is repeated, we can get good measures of how society is changing. Cross-sectional studiesД¬ross-sectional studies are surveys undertaken at one point in time, rather like a photo taken by a camera. These methodologies are widely used in research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Some of the most common quantitative research methodologies are described here. The strength of quantitative methods is that they can provide vital information about a society or community, through surveys, examinations, records or censuses, that no individual could obtain by observation. Quantitative research can measure and describe whole societies, or institutions, organisations or groups of individuals that are part of them.

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